14 DAY TRIAL // Lampshades are good for dampening the glow of what would otherwise be an eye-watering, spot-causing light source. However, even the fanciest ones don't do much more than that. Definitely don't attract admiring gazes after the first glance or two.
3D printing technology has opened new horizons for designers of such things. As well as for makers of light globes, some of which we'll be looking at right now.
3D printing enthusiast Jason Cole, who also happens to be a math lover, looked at the work of designers Henry Segermen and Saul Schleimer and set about emulating their favorite technique: that of projecting a sphere onto a plane.
This stereographic projection eventually led him to create the light globes you see in the attached gallery.
The pictures you see are drawn on the floor are actually the design on the light globe / lampshade projected on a plane.
The patterns can differ, but the lampshade is always the same size, since size and shape are just as important as the pattern: 3 – 3.5 inches in diameter (76 – 88 mm). The light has to be very precisely located as well.
Matlab was used to translate designs into a 3D printable form, and Mesh2D was employed to create the mesh.
