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Mercury In Transit (Multi-Material version included)

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CWCDesignsPublished: November 3, 2018
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After seeing the movie Sunshine by Danny Boyle many years ago I fell in love with it. To this day whenever I watch it many parts of it still fill me with awe. One scene in particular always stuck with me and that was when the crew of the Icarus II gathered to watch the transit of Mercury. Two minutes with no dialogue, John Murphy's calming score, and the incredible visual of Mercury passing in front of the sun. After this particular scene I drew a series of artwork based on this. Now, many years later, I'm continuing my series with 3D printing. I designed this set of five panels to be printed 6 different ways. Mostly I wanted to set this up for multi-material printing so when my MMU2 arrives I'll be ready to print this myself. Until then I made mine with filament layer changes. The black border around the flames is at the 3mm mark. The bottom flame layer is at the 4mm mark. The middle flame layer is at the 5mm mark. The top flame layer is at the 5mm mark and Mercury, on the fourth