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Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

bartv — 2013-03-01T14:14:08-00:00

Picture: Pollen Lamp by nervoussystem

I have a beautiful mediterranea lamp by cunicode on my desk and we have numerous other wonderful models in our gallery. This weekend I'd like to see how far your creativity can go, so I challenge you to design a lampshade with a surprise. Maybe it's something in the light pattern on the wall, maybe it contains a moving part powered by the heat of the lamp.. Surprise us and win a $25 voucher!

You have until Monday morning 10:00, GMT+1 to come up with your ideas!

How to enter

Model your lampshade, upload it to your gallery, tag it with 'Weekend Contest: Lampshade' and post the link and picture here (upload the image, and click 'Insert image into message body' to embed it in your forum message).

Who wins?

You decide! Visit the model that you like most, and add it to your favorites. The model with the most votes wins.

What's the prize?

Eternal fame! Kudos from the Shapeways team! Riches! Okay, well, the winner will get a $25 gift certificate.

That's all?

Yep, grab a drink, goof around in your favorite modeling app this weekend and have fun!

Bart

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

AmLachDesigns — 2013-03-01T14:17:36-00:00

bartv wrote on Fri, 01 March 2013 14:14

How to enter

Model the your digicloth, upload it to your gallery, tag it with 'Weekend Contest: Fabric' and post the link and picture here (upload the image, and click 'Insert image into message body' to embed it in your forum message).

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Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

bartv — 2013-03-01T14:21:28-00:00

Good catch, thanks!

Bart

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

HenryAlfredo — 2013-03-03T17:16:30-00:00

http://shpws.me/npEu
Square kufic calligraphy encased in a circle, housed in a cube.

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

stop4stuff — 2013-03-04T01:59:44-00:00

Balloon LED candle lampshade

Inspired by the murals I painted 18 years ago on the walls of my children;s nursey.

The lampshade is in the shape of a hot air balloon. and has a simple pattern of clouds, trees and fields within that alter the thickness of the balloon.

The idea is that a LED tea light candle will sit in a cup that the balloon shell sits on and lhe light is cast from the candle as the pattern within the balloon.

Paul

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

GADesign — 2013-03-04T08:28:40-00:00

Maybe too late and not what you would call a lamp shade ?

But hey, i'm being sick @home so why not design something

I present to you the Led Tube Cube.

This model is insipred by the Dutch artist : Escher
It's a squared shaped tube and the path of the tube stays within the geometric lines of a cube resulting in a lamp with many cool angles, you can insert a led strip and light up any place you like !

3D Render :

Hope You'll like it

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

UniverseBecoming — 2013-03-04T08:49:17-00:00

Ok, the first surprise for this lamp is that the three panels look like ordinary ribbed panels complementing the cylinder motif design, however, when the light is turned on a lithophane is revealed. The second surprise is when the viewer walks around the lamp the lithophane image in view changes state from happy to sad and vice versa. This switching image is a result of the frosted ultra detail or Transparent Detail lenticular lenses on the outer panels.

http://www.shapeways.com/model/953961/?li=modelEdit

With a panel removed reviling the back of one of the panels. In this image you see the combination of both the happy mask and the sad mask, yet when looking through the front lenticular lens only one image at a time is seen.

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

MrNibbles — 2013-03-04T08:50:44-00:00

http://shpws.me/npUz

A small minimalist lampshade designed for use with the Sylvania DOT-it LED light.

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

fx2 — 2013-03-04T08:57:07-00:00

my (late) entry: http://www.shapeways.com/model/953971/lampshade.html
When we rotate the top, the side are opening or closing.

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

UniverseBecoming — 2013-03-04T09:32:17-00:00

Oh, and if anyone is having trouble deciphering the two images blended together, here are the two models I made to make the bas relief lithophanes.

I originally wanted to make a rattlesnake coiled and striking as the two images, but after spending a day and a half on sculpting the snake I had to drop it and go with making the simple happy and sad masks cuz it was taking way too long!

I love everyone's entered creations! Great work!

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

GADesign — 2013-03-04T09:39:21-00:00

Hey @Universebecoming

It seems that your model is not set public, i also can't see any of your pictures.. (You have no permission to perform this action, this model is no longer publicly available)

Love to see what you've designed

Kind Regards,
Wesley Günter

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

stop4stuff — 2013-03-04T10:00:48-00:00

All good stuff

Another image for my entry,

I was trying to get the shadows that would be cast, but the design can be seen

Paul

edit: I inverted the render image - the design is more visable now.

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

UniverseBecoming — 2013-03-04T10:14:33-00:00

Thanks Wesley!

I forgot to set the category so it didn't go to public.

Yours would look wonderful sitting on a desk and lit up! Love it!

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

TaherehShahidi — 2013-03-04T10:56:28-00:00

Qafas

BTW Qafas or "قفس" = Cage

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

JACANT — 2013-03-04T17:10:02-00:00

Some clever designs here.
My 'Add To Favorites' button does not work

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

bartv — 2013-03-04T19:32:49-00:00

Nice work all! I'm starting to enjoy these weekend contests more and more

Again, you guys made it hard to choose, but I think fx2's 'Lampshade' is the one that most triggered my interest - I'm REALLY curious to see if that's actually going to work! Congrats and enjoy the $25 voucher!

Any suggestions for next week's contest? (Or maybe I should wait and ask that tomorrow.... ).

Bart

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

JACANT — 2013-03-04T21:20:50-00:00

Congrats fx2.
Nice idea, like a mechanical dimmer

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

UniverseBecoming — 2013-03-04T22:30:24-00:00

Props Fx2!

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

fx2 — 2013-03-05T07:21:25-00:00

Hello,

Thank you for the prize. I'm curious to know if that works, too ! I will create a reduced size test model and order it. I think the tricky thing is to get all the unsintered powder out of the mechanism.

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

HenryAlfredo — 2013-03-05T09:41:21-00:00

Congrats fx2

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

stop4stuff — 2013-03-06T09:31:47-00:00

Well done fx2

What's even more surprising is the 3D animated view of your model, at deifferent angles the body & vanes are counter rotating!

Paul

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

fx2 — 2013-03-06T16:08:46-00:00

stop4stuff wrote on Wed, 06 March 2013 09:31

Well done fx2

What's even more surprising is the 3D animated view of your model, at deifferent angles the body & vanes are counter rotating!

Paul

I had a look at the animated 3D view and effectively, there is an optical illusion. Good find !

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

stop4stuff — 2013-03-06T20:37:02-00:00

Perhaps the subject of a weekend contest?
'Models that create an optical illusion in the 3D viewer'
http://shpws.me/lwKU

Paul

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

JACANT — 2013-03-06T21:22:58-00:00

This is even weirder. The Tyre moves one way the Hub moves the other. Yet the spokes stay still.
http://www.shapeways.com/model/731705/hub-and-tyre.html

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

Youknowwho4eva — 2013-03-06T21:24:52-00:00

Ow it hurts!

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

stop4stuff — 2013-03-06T23:20:33-00:00

That's mad - did you notice the hub shadows too?
Some interesting effects can be had - http://shpws.me/nr11

Paul

Re: Weekend Contest #4: Lampshade

bartv — 2013-03-07T08:56:21-00:00

Hahaaa! I love this Hack the 360 degree viewer