{"id":461,"date":"2025-11-16T23:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/?p=461"},"modified":"2025-11-16T23:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:16:19","slug":"bang-and-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/blog\/bang-and-melt\/","title":{"rendered":"Bang! &#8230;and Melt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally setting up to shoot some stereoscopic 3D print melting, I heard a loud bang. One of the lights had exploded. Luckily there was safety glass in front of it as there was little left of the lightbulb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LampDead-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Close up of a spotlight with the remnants of an exploded halogen light bulb\" class=\"wp-image-462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LampDead-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LampDead-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LampDead.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">There was little left of the light bulb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The idea is to shoot timelapse footage of 3D printed objects melting. Which of course destroys the object, so I can not have lamps quitting on me while shooting. So I changed my setup and will be using the LED lights I had bought during the pandemic to light the green screen I use to record virtual lectures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LedLights-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Basement studio setup with stereo webcams and LED lights.\" class=\"wp-image-463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LedLights-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LedLights-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LedLights-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LedLights-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LedLights.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The current recording setup in our basement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The big tube in the picture above is intended to vent to outside. I am using an old computer fan in hopes of getting rid of the fumes that escape the PLA plastic as it melts. I think I may need something stronger, or simply more fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this test I build a little tree out of the scaffolding I had removed to clean up 3D prints. I wanted to record a time lapse of the material melting. For this I am using an old heat gun I once used to strip paint off our porch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the light blew I had hit a different snag. Turns out the stop motion software DragonFrame can only record time lapse sequences using still cameras, and I am using webcams. So in stead I set up OBS Studio to record the images from both cameras side by side, at the lowest available frame rate of 10fps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had wanted to shoot at more like one frame a second but it the plastic melts a lot faster than I had anticipated and 10fps may not even be enough. Here is a video of the result (not stereoscopic obviously) playing back the video at 24fps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"512\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 512 \/ 512;\" width=\"512\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251116_TreeMelt.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The process will need some tweaking, but I think I am getting somewhere. Baby steps, but steps nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally setting up to shoot some stereoscopic 3D print melting, I heard a loud bang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3130,"featured_media":466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":1,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[38,11,30,43,42,41,32,44,31],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-3d-print","tag-animation","tag-animators-anonymous","tag-dangerouslights","tag-experiment","tag-melting","tag-stereoscopy","tag-venting","tag-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideepix.nl\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}