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Just so you all don't think I am limited to just making food for kids...
I have a good friend who is an awesome artist. She has given me all sorts of great paintings in the past few years. I wanted to give her a piece of art that would really stand out as different.
I wanted to experiment with lenticular sheets because I have always been amazed by them ever since I dug the first one out of a cereal box as a kid. These are the sheets that make an image change whet you alter the angle you are viewing it at. To learn more about lenticular lenses - wikipidia
We both have the movie "fight club" as one of our top 5 all time movies so I decided to use this as a theme.
Please note that the animated gif below is a composite image because my camera takes horrible images of the picture with the lenses in front of it.
Please check out my other instructables and I also have a diy podcast called mechanicalmashup.tv
I have a good friend who is an awesome artist. She has given me all sorts of great paintings in the past few years. I wanted to give her a piece of art that would really stand out as different.
I wanted to experiment with lenticular sheets because I have always been amazed by them ever since I dug the first one out of a cereal box as a kid. These are the sheets that make an image change whet you alter the angle you are viewing it at. To learn more about lenticular lenses - wikipidia
We both have the movie "fight club" as one of our top 5 all time movies so I decided to use this as a theme.
Please note that the animated gif below is a composite image because my camera takes horrible images of the picture with the lenses in front of it.
Please check out my other instructables and I also have a diy podcast called mechanicalmashup.tv
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The first thing I did was watch the movie "fight club". I was looking for usable screen captures that I could use for the picture. VLC media player has a snapshot feature. I took the best photos and used fireworks (I don't use photoshop) to crop them and clean up the backgrounds.
For the backgrounds I wanted for my picture I found two panning shots from the movie. I took several screen captures and stitched them all together to create an extremely wide screen image. One of the narrators apartment with his IKEA like catalog descriptions floating in the air. The other was the debris outside his apartment after his stove blew up. Note the ying yang table in both images. I was having some trouble finding a second good shot of Tyler Durden (aka Brad Pitt). All the screen captures that were good were to dark. Luckily I found a promotional photo that was just about perfect.
For the backgrounds I wanted for my picture I found two panning shots from the movie. I took several screen captures and stitched them all together to create an extremely wide screen image. One of the narrators apartment with his IKEA like catalog descriptions floating in the air. The other was the debris outside his apartment after his stove blew up. Note the ying yang table in both images. I was having some trouble finding a second good shot of Tyler Durden (aka Brad Pitt). All the screen captures that were good were to dark. Luckily I found a promotional photo that was just about perfect.
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The companies name is Micro Lens Technology http://www.microlens.com/
It was about a year ago that I dealt with them but I remember them being very helpful on the phone. They are also in NC, sorry, I think I said CA before.
My order was 5 sheets of 22" by 28" 30 lpi for $47.00 before shipping and taxes. (remember it was a year ago, prices may change)
Most if not all of the software that will interlace your project will print out test sheets to help you find the right pitch. It is very precise and measured in the thousandths of an inch.