3D Lenticular LED underlit Fractal Chess Board

[LMarkoya]

3D Lenticular LED underlit Fractal Chess Board



http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=16942

To Compliment my 3D fractal printed Chess set, I had to design a deserving board. Here is my 3D lenticular underlit chess board. I constructed an LED edgelit panel to better show off its intricacy. WIth its menger sponge squares and dragon flame border it is a thing of beauty. I will soon post a 3D gif to show how the board is 3D with the white squares taking 8 steps down in depth from one end, and the dark squares doing the same from the other side. See it and the chess pieces here.
http://www.louismarkoya.com/#!Lenticular 3D Backlit Chessboard/zoom/c1n0f/image_1zg2
http://www.louismarkoya.com/#!3D Fractal Chess Set/zoom/c1n0f/image_yl4
Squares done in Mandelbulb, frame in JWildfire

[thargor6]

Very cool! 

[cKleinhuis]

wohoo, what are you 2 planning, kraftwerk and louis ?! i sense some coop work is going on here...

[KRAFTWERK]

wohoo, what are you 2 planning, kraftwerk and louis ?! i sense some coop work is going on here...

It is rather parallell works Christian, when I saw Louis beautiful chess pieces I decided to finish my set, which I had been collecting during the years.

Looks great Louis! I hope you get that gif animation to work, would be very interesting to see the effect!

[LMarkoya]

I do have it working (the GIF animation), and will soon open an entire page on my website of GIFs of my lenticulars,and they all are fractals or fractal related...it will be cool, I promise
The chess board looks orders of magnitude better in life....it brings out every fractal detail and increases the sense of depth....I have to admit, it really is something of beauty

[cKleinhuis]

lol, i wonder how one is able to concentrate on the game ... or was that your intention to confuse your opponent ? no offence!!

[LMarkoya]

If you're seriously going to play a game on this you concentrate on your pieces and not the board, and with the pieces on the board there will be areas with very little 3D effect as the piece will cover a majority of the square surface....as the game goes on and the board gets more sparse, you better be able to concentrate

[cKleinhuis]

haha concentrate? concentrating on johans chess figure? i doubt this makes it easier to concentrate on winning