To The Bone

Down to the truth
Down to the bone

I love Steven Wilson's music, and so I created a set of 3D printable abstractions to represent his discography.

This can be used as a beverage coaster, or just for display. It is square like a CD or vinyl album sleeve.

This is his fifth solo album To The Bone, released in 2017. with a sound reminiscent of prog and pop from the 1980's, it features several session musicians.

I avoided the actual album cover as a lithophane or AMS-only photo. Instead, I simplified it into something friendly for FDM regular setups, inspired by album art and tour merch. 
My design is a simplification of the cover photo, with the two main colors, red and blue, and the same text but larger.

If you like Steven Wilson's work, don't miss my other album covers.

--------Print instructions----------

Printing slowly helps with definition of letters and to reduce imperfections, 20mm/s for example. Input shaper ok.
Infill at least 15% to hold top layers or text above, but you can play with patterns and higher percentages.
I didn't use brims or rafts, but you can if you experience warping, especially in the square corners. Temporary water-based adhesive is useful too.

• No supports
   
• Pause-and-change-filament at certain heights to have different colors, even with a regular FDM setup. With AMS it's even easier
   
• Scale to whatever size is convenient for you. If the height is too deep you can scale it down in the Z axis
   
• Feel free to experiment with colors and top fill patterns
   
• Adaptive layers can help speed up through just square parts, and then have more resolution on text above.

I printed the one you see in my photos switching from red to light blue and finally white. It has no top layers to leave the Archimedean Chords infill exposed.

Modeled by Mexican designer Dany Sánchez, creator of MiniWorld3D & OpenFigure3D.

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Any Related Indicia are Trademarks of their respective owners. This model is a non for profit, fan work modeled from scratch inspired by album art. No trademark infringement is intended.