These images demonstrate the undercut protection built into the paracell scripts. On the left is a surface made up of coffer units which carve out triangular coffers normal to the surface. As the surface warps this begins to create undercut conditions as seen in the middle image which is then rectified by the undercut protection as seen on the right.

I'm looking forward to routing a piece of this when our router gets fixed this week. The renderings with triangular coffers are a bit harsh but when the toolpaths are all said and done I think triangular cells with .25" or .5" fillets (diameter of the bit) will look nice. Adding all of those fillets to the geometry would make the file very heavy, but factoring them into the design seems practical to me. Toolpaths are our friends.

Still unpacking boxes... almost there.

Tyre mold on dry ice blast cleaning

Just got an idea, but I still don't know what to do with the cockpit.

This one is done actually, available at freebpthemes.com

Original design by themejunkie.com

I picked the size 35D, but think I should have gone down to the 35B, maybe? Way too much vertical and horizontal room over the bust.

This is just basted together so I will rip out and tweak.

Also, I'm making this muslin version into a top, but it's looking too long... will chop it a few inches shorter.

Grading a new dress download.

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I had some time to work on my painting today.

Mixed media embroidery inclusions of gel transfer images on buttons, fragments of homemade textured clay, tin can beads, metallic and cotton threads, fiber covered buttons on felt laminated red velvet. The piece as shown here is not completely finished. More stitching was added to the background between the pieces. I will post another copy soon.

The piece was created as a tribute to Haïti victims. The fragments of discarded pieces speak of rebuilding from scraps and foreign aid. The stitching (spirals) are both the destruction and reconstruction energies present. The seed stitches mean planting and new growth. Threads are representative of relationships holding things together.

Cilla... a little girl from an English village in the 60's... who wanted nothing more than to be a pop star. But now that she's achieved her goal and had many hit records, she finds her greatest happiness is at home with her friends and loved ones... she takes to the stage and gives a great show - but loves to return home to quiet times and her "roots".

Mood board collage session in progress with a client at our new location in Durham, NC.

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one side + middle of the armor mostly painted + glossed

Hope to get around to finishing this soon... Outline is all done though and I think it looks pretty damn spot on :)

setting the grommets

Dry ice blasting Aerospace

This one just needs to be bound. It is all quilted. It is made out of flannels. From “Cut-Loose Quilts by Jan Mullen

in process hand-painting for Gray continues...the acrylic was mixed with a fabric medium additive and just splotched on to get the watercolor effect as seen in the game.

my first sock. working toe-up from a free pattern i found online, with some modifications.

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The heel wheels ended up being so almost the same size as the hip wheels afterall.

What...back to work on this, huh? Foot patterning is being overseen here....

This is the top collar, which required a lot of criss-crossed ribbon confusion just like the sleeves. Since the back will be covered by my hair, fur + the cape, I wasn't too concerned to have a bit of distortion on the intersections back there, and I just tried to concentrate on matching the front area to his desgin.

These are KnitPicks sock blanks that I grad-dip-dyed blue ombre to light blue... pattern is Waving Lace from Favorite Socks. (more knitting and sewing at www.polkadotoverload.com )

reversing the strips of micro-suede to give more dept for the lines rather than just top-stitching

Paracell v2 arrays cells along the guide splines using a user-defined spacing value. Earlier versions, like the one pictured here, arrayed cells based on the points of the guide spline. This proved very limited.

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My Xmas gift to my sis-in-law!

I crocheted these leg warmers to look like boot tops. The idea is that the boots are knee-high and lined with black faux fur. Her actual winter boots are ankle height hiking boot style and are black with brown trim... soooo I made ;these black with brown trim.

The metal rings are split rings - the type you put your keys on. I just made sure that when I crocheted into them I worked stitches over the "break" in the splitring so you can't tell that's what they are!

The faux fur "lining" of the boot-tops is a row of hdc done in Bernat Boa yarn.

My own design, crocheted mostly in linked hdc using Red Heart Comfort.

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Dry ice blasting Aerospace

Next to the magnetic blackboard wall. We're still going to put molding around the blackboard.

cutting out a bunch of particular slivers of foam (this would have been free0form normally, but I wanted the layers to mirror the other side.)

I started this temari with the intent on making pattern 99PG04 on Temarikai. About a third of the way complete on the interwoven pentagons, I realized that I wouldn't be able to complete this as intended. The small triangles aren't supposed to be there, the three black threads are supposed to meeting there. And, I had stitched up too close the the poles. So, I could stop and rip it out and start over or I could continue and just do a more basic interlocked pentagon pattern. I decided to continue since I was enjoying how the colors were working out.