Planetary Christmas ornaments |
Planetary Christmas ornaments |
Nov 14 2011, 08:47 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Cranking up the saturation on the last image Ooooh. Pretty. If I could find a Christmas ornament of Vesta that looked like that like that I'd hang it on my tree. Maybe that's an idea for a future TPS fundraising product -- planetary ornaments. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Nov 14 2011, 09:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 140 Joined: 20-November 07 Member No.: 3967 |
Ooooh. Pretty. If I could find a Christmas ornament of Vesta that looked like that like that I'd hang it on my tree. Maybe that's an idea for a future TPS fundraising product -- planetary ornaments. Hey, that's a perfect use of the foldable maps (see Phobos, et al. over at rightbasicbuilding.com I've been making. Our yearly tree has an extensive solar system ornamentation already. Trouble with normal methods of 3D manufacture is the size of the production run, and by some method, printing surface features onto the object. Nice thing about the foldable paper approach is that color printing takes place (duh) on the flat sheet, then, cut'n'fold. (Of course if my memory serves, you EGD, will draw rabbit ears on the flat map, but they'll disappear when folded. Now all we need is for me to get my hands on an actual model of Vesta, to capture metes and bounds. Anybody out there able to contribute? |
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Nov 14 2011, 09:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 695 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
I did a virtual version of the planetary Xmas ornament idea 15 years ago: 1996 Christmas Card. But it would be really cool to do it for real...
John |
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Nov 14 2011, 10:18 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
It's been suggested before. We've looked into it and you can get circular (not spherical, sadly) ceramic ornaments custom-printed with a photo from lots of places, including our own store at Cafe Press. When we checked last year I think they were prohibitively expensive but I just looked there and the base price is $6, which is I think a lot less than it was last year. Would people buy planet-themed circular, not spherical ornaments at $8 or $9 a pop?
If I were feeling super creative I might go this route and try making my own... http://craftsbyamanda.com/2011/09/sports-ball-ornaments.html -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Nov 15 2011, 06:49 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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