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Posted by sam at Tue Dec 5 01:33:02 2006
thanks for this! looks neat

Posted by Aron Stansvik at Tue Dec 5 11:47:22 2006
I know my mom would love the shape of this lamp, and I'd love to make her one for christmas.

Do you have any idea where I could get the required material?

Could the sheets of plastic be so thin that they could actually run through a laser printer? Or would I need to first print templates to draw onto the plastic sheets?

Cool thing!

Regards,
Aron

Posted by Ben FrantzDale at Tue Dec 5 22:08:32 2006
I've seen designer lamps from that era, but not that. That's amazing.

Who took the picture? It's hard to believe it's a photo.

Posted by Lennart at Tue Dec 5 22:19:22 2006
Aron: U.S. citizens can probably get the material from usplastic.com. In Germany it's pretty difficult to get the material. Until now I haven't been able to find a source with decent choice and price. You might find the sheets in handicraft shops.

I wouldn't want to run them through a laser printer. First, I think that it wouldn't fit because paper is much more flexible than this plastic. And secondly a laser print usually produces quite a lot of heat, so you might end up with the plastic melted inside the printer. I wouldn't want to try that. It's probably a better idea to print the template on normal paper than glue it to some thick cardboard, then cutting it out and using it as a stencil for the plastic pieces.

Posted by Lennart at Tue Dec 5 22:22:15 2006
Ben: It took that photo, and it is real!

Posted by Ben FrantzDale at Tue Dec 5 23:18:22 2006
I'd love to see a full-resolution photo of it.

Also, you could round the convex point on each of the four tabs. That would make those spirals at the vertices look even better.

Considering other options, it would be interesting to see what you'd get if the convex curves at the ends were serrated.

Posted by Lennart at Thu Dec 7 01:31:50 2006
Ben: I uploaded the full-resolution (a little bit unsharp) photo here:

http://0pointer.de/public/mexiko-lampe.jpeg

I think if the convex points are rounded the pieces would not hold together that well. But I don't know. You're welcome to experiment with this!

Posted by bisho at Sat Dec 9 14:49:59 2006
Thanks!!!

I will do one of this for christmas for sure!.

http://blogs.eurielec.etsit.upm.es/freedreams

Posted by Ben FrantzDale at Mon Jan 8 15:43:42 2007
I made the lamp out of paper, it turned out great! (pictures)

A few comments, in case I don't post them on my own blog.

There's a dent in the diagram you posted. The bottom right part of the curve is slightly concave for a bit.

The pieces have a front and a back. If it isn't going together nicely, make sure all the pieces are oriented the same way.

I rounded the tabs so there aren't any convex angles. Look at the nice smooth five-line spiral compared with the angles that can be seen in the picture you posted. Ideally those tabs would follow a logarithmic spiral for much of the curve, but I don't have the Inkscape skills to draw that at the moment. (A logarithmic spiral spirals infinitely inward, so it would need to degenerate in to an Archimedean spiral at some point.)

I found it helped to round the inside of the inside angle of the tabs a bit so there isn't a geometric singularity where the three, four, or five tabs meet. (It's hard to explain without a picture; I just took an X-Acto blade and drilled a roughly 1mm-diameter hole at the inside crotch of the tab.

Since mine is made of paper, it's a potential fire hazard. The 40-watt mini incandescent bulb I tried first got the paper quite hot. I switched to an equivalent 7-watt compact fluorescent, which is just as bright and quite cool. Overall it's still a bit dim; I plan to put in a 25-watt compact fluorescent (100-watt equivalent).

Thanks for the great project. I find all sorts of interesting things on planet.gnome.org.

Posted by Malte at Sat Jan 27 01:57:19 2007
can anybody post a how to for the mexican lamp? i do know where to find the usual 30 piece shape, but the mexican i have not seen anywhere else before. any germans reading this? wha kind of material do you use + where do you get it

Posted by Lennart at Fri Feb 2 11:01:58 2007
Malte, please check: http://0pointer.de/blog/iq-light-final.html

Posted by jayKayEss at Mon Feb 19 01:23:43 2007
no need to buy specialty plastic-- i used ordinary mylar drafting film that you can get in any art supply store.  it's fairly cheap, too.

Posted by Michael at Fri Jun 22 05:47:56 2007
Is there any reason why you wouldn't want to just use laser transparency sheets?  They have to be pretty heat resistant to go through the fuser, so that's a safety plus, especially if you use compact fluorescent bulbs. 

I'm thinking of doing this using sheets run through a Xerox Phaser 8400 series, using transparencies and full color patterns on each piece.

Posted by Tatiana at Wed Jul 25 19:01:53 2007
instruçoes da luminaria versao portugues

Posted by lampmaker at Wed Jan 30 18:33:27 2008
I purchased some white 2 pocket plastic folders from our local office supply store and proceeded to cut out the 30 pieces needed to make this lamp. Total cost -$7.00 USD. It was much harder to assemble than I expected and took me nearly 2 hours of fighting with all the pieces to get it together. In any case, it looks great! Also, I enlarged the drawing of the piece some (1.10% enlargement) and the finished sphere size is about 10 inches...

Posted by John at Fri Feb 8 01:36:02 2008
I was wondering what type of light did you use for this lamp? I also would like to know where you had gotten it.

Posted by Lennart at Tue Feb 12 14:54:52 2008
John: Just a normal plain CFL like you can buy in almost any shop these days.

Posted by mariana at Tue Feb 12 15:24:39 2008
thanks for giving all the oportunity to make so much beautiful things

Posted by me at Tue Mar 18 15:03:49 2008
http://www.iqlights.com/

and I did it on coverstock and it worked just fine

Posted by Jeanette at Sat May 10 13:56:58 2008
I bought one in Bangkok few months ago at about US$15

I found the same light in eBay - http://stores.ebay.com/The-Art-of-Home-Deco

affordable and good.

Posted by Mary at Fri Jul 4 04:02:16 2008
Thanks Jeanette,

I got mine in the ebay store you mentioned. Nice and affordable!

Posted by Melinda at Fri Feb 20 19:33:55 2009
I got mine in another eBay store - http://stores.shop.ebay.com/KOANLiving

Very good product and good price.

Thumbs up!

Posted by jigsawlampshop at Mon Mar 16 11:30:56 2009
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Posted by veluah at Wed Oct 28 11:44:03 2009
olá,  bom dia...
Adorei esta luminária...gostaria de aprender....eu poderia?????

um grande abraço....
veluah
brasil....campinas


sp

Posted by Jessica Haywood at Mon Dec 14 03:57:14 2009
Hi I was wondering if anyone knows where I can buy the pieces for the lamp in bulk?  I am thinking about selling them, but I'm having a hard time finding a supplier in the us (all I have found are in thailand).  Thanks!

Posted by Michelle at Wed Jan 13 01:39:02 2010
Does the plastic need to let light through?

Posted by John K at Wed Mar 10 04:12:03 2010
Jessica,

You can contact visit this ebay seller - http://stores.shop.ebay.com/KOANLiving  or www.koanliving.com

They do wholesale as well.

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