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'Follow' - making an Interactive print

Acancarter

I'm retired and living in Northamptonshire, so plenty of time for photography.

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'Follow' - making an Interactive print

29 Jun 2021 12:47PM Views : 816 Unique : 352

I've uploaded a number of images from my 'harmony of Light' project using my home built Harmonograph platform. 'Follow' is one of the recent ones 'Follow'.

I noticed with this image, especially when printed, that it had a rather mesmerising quality when rotated. I tried this as a gif, which demonstrated the principle, but my real idea was to make an 'Interactive' print, so viewers could try rotating it, moving it etc.

I bought a couple of 'lazy Susan' bearings, only a couple of pounds each, and built the mechanism from MDF.

A perspex disc was used for the glazing. The print needed to be 400mm wide to match the disc, so from the roll feed on the Epson P800

Then all assembled, little bit of lubrication, glass clips to secure...and

I hope you like it and it doesn't give you motion sickness. I think it has quite a 3D feel to it particularly when rotated anticlockwise.

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