The
Colored Marbles had arrived.
That's very cool to have the multicolor prints in my hands!
There are 3 models of marbles (a 4th is coming soon), all being 7/8" and available as co-creators so that you can put your own image:
-
Solid Marble
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Hollow Marble
-
Bistable Hollow Marble
The
Solid Marble is a simple Sphere. It is not hollowed and has no hole, hence it is the most expensive. I propose it as a co-creator for those who do not have the time, the patience or the knowledge to make and upload a textured sphere, but as I am a little bit reluctant to pretend I invented the sphere
, I also propose it for free (well, for no markup).
Just download the file wrl below, zip it with a jpeg (2048x1024 pixels recommended) that you will name "image.jpg" (all in lower case, including the extension) and upload it in your designs. In this way, you won't have to pay the markup!
Some words about the images: 2048x1024 is recommended (that's what I used, but I guess that smaller image can be OK (say 1024x256 or even 800x400). But they must be twice as large as high. The texture will be wrapped on the sphere, so the first and the lines of pixels will become 2 points at the poles, and the line at half heigh will become the equator. When there are holes, they are at the poles. So sometime you will have to turn the images 90°, like for instance for the Happy/Sad Face:
(not my best drawing, it is just for you to understand)
The
Solid Marble is suitable for a number of holders that can act as Pendants or Keyrings:
- the
Big Marble Pendant v2
- the
Big Marble Pendant v3
- the
Marble Cage
Currently only White Strong Flexible has been tested for those designs.
The two fist ones need some flexibility, but the last one has been design with Stainless Steel in mind (no need to be flexible), and I am quite confident that Transparent Detail could also work with it.
The
Hollow Marble is 3mm thick and has 2 holes of 2mm.
It is less expensive than the previous one.
It is suitable for the 3 previous holders but also for
- the
Roll Pendant
- the
Earth Pendant (the inclinaison of the axis is the one of the Earth, so it is perfect for a Earth texture
).
Obviously, you can also use this marble as a bead.
The
Bistable Hollow Marble has been specially designed for the
Roll Pendant. It is like the previous one, but the holes, instead of being circular have the shape of an ellipse. As a consequence, it has two stable positions, so you can use each time you have to make a choice with two options: for instance with texures like Yes/No, Happy Face/Sad Face, Wife's Picture/Mother in Law's Picture etc.
Let me know your opinion!