u/ddeacon22

Depthmap Tools

I’ve wanted to ask what everyone uses to get decent depth maps? I’ve been using ChatGPT, Gemini, and SculptOK but all have various issues I’ve been trying to work around. I use GIMP for building up my images, but not really for depth maps.

TIA

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u/ddeacon22 — 20 days ago

Still Refining Profiles

Still refining my burn profiles but getting better detail. This one didn’t quite get as deep as I wanted but happy with the level of detail in relation to the source image.

Hope I don’t need this in the near future.

u/ddeacon22 — 1 month ago
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A New Hobby - Laser Engraving

I've recently undertaken a new hobby, thought I'd drop one in here I've recently created.

Coin heads - Athena in battle form in an homage to Gigantomachy.
Coin Tails - Throne of Athena sitting empty.

Hope you enjoy it.

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u/ddeacon22 — 2 months ago

New Zeus Coin

New Zeus coin I finished up last night. Took more work on the depth map for this one and it helped a lot I’m getting about a 0.75mm depth difference from high to low with the settings below which is what I’ve been targeting. This is a 40mm diameter x 3mm thick coin.

Did it on a ComMarker Titan 1 100W with these setting. Let me know if you have any recommended settings changes as I’m still pretty new to these.

3D Slice
Speed: 3000.0 mm/sec
Power: 90% Max / 20% Min
Frequency: 80.00 kHz
Q-Pulse Width: 200 ns
Line Interval: 0.0200 mm (1270 DPI)
Scan Angle: 0° (with 45.0° Angle Increment)
Image Mode: 3D Sliced
Number of Passes: 128
Bi-directional scanning: Enabled
Cleanup Pass: Enabled

Cleanup
Speed: 2500.0 mm/sec
Max Power: 30%
Frequency: 80.00 kHz
Q-Pulse Width: 500 ns
Line Interval: 0.0254 mm (1000 LPI)
Scan Angle: 45°
Clean after # passes: 16
Bi-directional fill: Enabled
Clean whole image: Enabled

u/ddeacon22 — 2 months ago

NOOB Weekend of Coin Making

Well I broke in the new laser this weekend doing coins. I’m a total noob so go gentle. Here is the bunch I did first one in top left then each subsequent one to the right is the next one. A little Greek god theme going here.

u/ddeacon22 — 3 months ago

First Run

So I’ve never used a laser before so these are my first runs ever + first on my new laser. Did a single pass marking run last night on the stainless steel they provide with the laser just to get used to it. Today I tried an engraving run but stopped it after two passes as I had to leave and didn’t want to leave it running. Any event, looking forward to playing more in the weekend

u/ddeacon22 — 3 months ago

New Rolling Workbench for New Laser

New laser arrived and I needed a better place to put it so built a new workbench for it today. Can’t wait to fire up the laser this week.

u/ddeacon22 — 3 months ago