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“You are the melting men
And as you melt
You are beheaded”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Also sprach Siouxsie of Siouxsie and the Banshees (Melt!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our basement, I have been working on a setup to record 3D printed stop motion in stereo, while melting the printed objects. I am using a heat gun, which I mounted on a slide to get a controlled, and hopefully repeatable, effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most recent recording setup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There is a bathroom fan mounted over the setup to get rid of the fumes from the melting pla plastic, which vents to outside, repurposing a dryer vent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today I found the heat gun itself actually gives off the worst fumes. The thing is almost twenty years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took me a while to get the thing properly mounted and aimed. The test yielded an interesting result but not exactly the effect I am looking for. And the focus was a little off.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Some stills from today’s recording (single view)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The heat from the gun is more focused than I expected, and melted the print in half, decapitating the fella. In stead of using the slider to gradually move the heat source close to the print, I think I need to make it come down slowly, at a basically constant distance. I have already mounded the slide vertically. Gravity is not my friend now. I think I need to add a counterweight on a sort of pulley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile I am working on an animation featuring the same character, modeling a boat, and creating an end of year animation. Let’s see how much I can finish before the semester vortex pulls me in again in the new year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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