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cefn / Tacticalendar

Laser-cut calendar design - features driven by customer requests through the github issue tracker.
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Thickness of acrylic creates drop shadow #14

Closed cefn closed 13 years ago

cefn commented 13 years ago

The current thickness of acrylic means that if the light source is not oriented very precisely, then any writing on the calendar creates a drop-shadow effect, making it hard to read from a distance.

The thinner the acrylic, the less this effect should take place, so a different material could be useful here. It may be possible to use acetate as an alternative, although in the sliding design, this is likely to slip around and drop across week boundaries as it's so thin.

cefn commented 13 years ago

This remains an issue with the reduced 2mm acrylic, and seems to be as much a function of the bend in the acrylic away from the tiles in the centre, as in the thickness of the acrylic.

It's an issue mainly when there's a single point source of light in the room.

I don't know if there's a systematic bend, depending on the side which is laser cut. If this is the case then the corner numbers on the acrylic could be helpful to keep track of things.

If the bend is to do with being pressured against the retaining edges, thicker acrylic may not bend as much, perhaps.

cefn commented 13 years ago

Not so much of an issue with the correctly dimensioned retaining panels vs the duct tape expansion. The gorilla tape was the problem here, causing things to bow outwards.