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I assembled a squirrel box and 2 Blink cameras, and put it 15' up in a tree. 3D printed a case to hold the camera and put a hole in the top of the box to view inside. I mounted the second camera to get a view from outside. Added some plexiglass to the large hole. Now we play the waiting game. 😅

Another experiment. What I learned is; -I'm not good at pouring intricate spaces -Need to make channels wider & deeper walls -Need to pour hotter for better flow This soap looks like strawberry banana. I wish I had those scents. I ended up using an "Oak & Moss" scent. #b3d #soap

I always loved the candles made by dipping and creating layers, so I wondered if that could be done with melt/pour soap. I figured I'd do a quick and dirty experiment. I think it turned out pretty cool. I was working haphazardly, but the proof of concept works! 😁 #soap

First experiment of trying to see if the pull-through method with melt & pour soap is possible. Here's the pieces I designed in Blender and 3D printed. I think I need to come up with a more intricate disk design to create better swirls, but still a fun result. #b3d #soap

I've started making soap, and have been toying with ideas of how to incorporate Blender skills into soap making. 🤔 Here's a couple pics of soaps I made (to familiarize myself) and then some experimenting with Blender & mold shapes (I had to try the Voronoi texture). #b3d

Another animated 3D texture. This is the "Magic Texture" for those who use Blender. #b3d

Another 3D texture, this one is a distorted wave texture with the phase animated. #b3d

Another experiment with "negative space". A Voronoi 3D texture is used to create the pattern, and then a distance function to create the shapes. #b3d

Continuing with the exploration of 3D tiling/intersecting shapes. This one is based off a Voronoi - Minkowski texture. The blue portion connects all the way through the orange portion. #b3d

Here's an example of tiling, using the SDF Grid nodes in Blender 5.0. I used a Voronoi-Manhattan 3D texture to create this pattern. Interesting how it ends up with hexagons & squares. #b3d

Finally testing out Blender 5.0 Beta. Here's an animation based on the node setup by Ducky3D . Time to explore some more. 😁 #b3d

Here's a mono-tile tessellation I made today. It reminds me of candy corn. 🌽 #b3d

Testing the projector concept with animated mesh this time. #b3d

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Testing out the new TencentHunyuan version 3, Image to 3D model tool. Pretty good!

Another 3D tessellation. You can rotate all the tiles on the X, Y, or Z axis and still tessellate. #b3d

Playing with sine waves. #b3d

Marble race through a Truchet tile system (uses 4 different tiles). #b3d

Truchet funnels #b3d

I was watching that game show The Wall, and wondered if I could make a Truchet tile system and let balls race through it. Behold! 😁 It also reminds me of marble racing. #b3d

New tiling/tessellation setup. Two tiles with some mirroring. I call this one the "Scorpion Tile" 🦂😁 #b3d

3D fractal system, based on the geonode setup by MTR Animation. #b3d #Fractal

2D Fractal System (based on a geometry node setup by MTR Animation) #b3d #fractal

Tile trails #loop #b3d

Linked hexagons #b3d

A tri-fold tiled twisting mobius. #b3d

Tile Fountain, version 4 #b3d

Truchet tile coffee cup. 😃 #b3d

Animated version of the optical illusion. #b3d

Using Blender's "shortest" path node, the target moves from bottom to top and the grid recalculates the shortest paths as it moves. #b3d

Optical illusion. #b3d

Truchet tile cylinder, version 2! #b3d

Working on my geometry node tile setup to mimic MC Escher's art where tiles morph into birds/animals/etc. The bird tiles on the right do perfectly tesselate, but a lot of the time, MC Escher would space out the tiles once they morphed. #b3d

I just used Hitem3d's image to 3d model tool, wow! Most detail of any of these tools I've used before. Here's the input image and the model created pulled into Blender. It has 1.02 million vertices for those wondering.

Twisting torus with crystal hexagonal tiling. #b3d