I'm not a software engineer, and have never used a 3D modeling package. Personally, I'm much more of a hands-on girl, into car engines and machine tools. Physical things, in other words.
Lipstick is physical. The brand I use (probably shouldn't name it here, but you'll figure it out) is fantastic. High-quality, sassy, potent. The casings, however, are all sleek, identical, bland. When I'm using lipstick, it's because I'm being social and fun, and I want casings to match.
It's high time to customize my favorite accessory. I'm thinking old-school glamour, like vintage bejeweled compacts. The software element is a challenge, but one which can be mastered with a little creativity and the right lipstick.
Lipstick is physical. The brand I use (probably shouldn't name it here, but you'll figure it out) is fantastic. High-quality, sassy, potent. The casings, however, are all sleek, identical, bland. When I'm using lipstick, it's because I'm being social and fun, and I want casings to match.
It's high time to customize my favorite accessory. I'm thinking old-school glamour, like vintage bejeweled compacts. The software element is a challenge, but one which can be mastered with a little creativity and the right lipstick.
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The idea comes to me as a mash-up of the nested carved ivory balls (something that's impossibly intricate and obviously handmade) and the magician lace-makers from Eragon's Nasuada. The latter for me is how to get something that women would love to have from a technology that very few of them know how to use - namely 3D printing.
One of the amazing things about 3D printing is the ability to make shapes that are impossible, impractical, or at least prohibitively expensive for traditional manufacturing methods. Since I work in computer manufacturing, I at least have a reasonable grasp on the capabilities of traditional methods and none of them can accomplish what I want to do.
One of the amazing things about 3D printing is the ability to make shapes that are impossible, impractical, or at least prohibitively expensive for traditional manufacturing methods. Since I work in computer manufacturing, I at least have a reasonable grasp on the capabilities of traditional methods and none of them can accomplish what I want to do.
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That's a great idea. Any models you create using the fab software at lipstick.machinelevel.com should already have a "Download STL" link, but I'll bet I can also persuade LabRat to hand over the final STL's for the ones I showed, and just upload them here.
I do have one request, though (I'm a negotiator). In exchange for the STL's, I'd love to find out what printer you used, and get a picture of how it turned out, hopefully with the girl who's going to be using the final lipstick in the pic.
How's that sound?