During an eclipse, nice pinhole images can be cast by trees. The last eclipses I saw were in places with no trees, so I carried a colander or a sheet of paper with a pinhole grid cut into it. | ||||
For the 2023 annular eclipse I decided to again carry a sheet of
pinholes, but with a twist.
I started with a small (123×168px) passport photo, since it already has a light background | ||||
Positive | Negative | Darker | ||
Use GIMP to make it grayscale, invert, darker by Exposure-3 | ||||
Convert to halftone image
at picturetopeople.org | ||||
In Inkscape, Path->Trace bitmap. Slide away original
layer and discard. Save as dxf.
For dark, threshold 0.15 | ||||
Cut on the laser cutter, hold it in the Sun | ||||
Remarks: | In the Sun, result is negative, duh. | Positive, but holes are too big | Too many of the 'pixels' disappeared. | |
So I took the grid with the too-big holes, and used Inkscape to increase the space between the 'pixels'. I'll go with that. |