Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
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Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
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Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#2Working with glass really is a lot of fun and isn’t particularly hard. I didn’t realize how easy it was until I started messing with chemistry.
The material is absolutely amazing and we still don’t know everything about it.
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#3My father did a lot of stained glass window when I was young. When we moved countries he couldn't take it up again for lack of funds but I have fond memories geeking out with him about it. He would draw amazing things with it and I wished that it was more prevalent today. Stained glass can be absolutely beautiful.
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#4My mom made some really amazing stained glass projects when I was a kid and I've always been fascinated by it. Recently I had the thought that the process could be singnificantly sped by using CNC/Waterjets or something else to help with the really time consuming cutting and fitting aspects.
I've found a few instances where people have used CNC cutters with a diamond drag bit to help score the glass, and a few industrial glass cutting applications of similar to stained glass size items, but no real start to finish projects.
This is an interesting industrial example as they were able to produce a stained glass piece that is made almost entirely from curved pieces (a near impossibility with traditional scoring and breaking) - https://semyx.com/solutions/waterjet-applications/glass/
Industrial waterjet glass cutting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_qMKKwvzz8
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#5That is stunning! The part about copper and solder got me wondering if it would be possible to create some primitive circuits for... something?
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#6That is stunning! The part about copper and solder got me wondering if it would be possible to create some primitive circuits for... something?
Glass is a perfectly good circuit board material. Here's a company offering it commercially:
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#7That's some very HN material! I would totally buy a copy piece of that, great explanation about each step of the process too! :-)
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#8Well, hey, that's me! Howdy folks.
Re: Making a Menger sponge in stained glass
#9That's lovely; amazing that it was just your first project. Thanks for the detailed walk-through. My mom did stained glass before I was born, but I never got to see it done, so it was really cool to be able to see it grow step-by-step.
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#10That's lovely; amazing that it was just your first project. Thanks for the detailed walk-through. My mom did stained glass before I was born, but I never got to see it done, so it was really cool to be able to see it grow step-by-step.
It's a shockingly approachable medium! I was really surprised at how much it wasn't a series of frustrating technical or fiddly bits.