{"id":4130,"date":"2012-04-08T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T20:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2012-04-08T15:15:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T20:15:10","slug":"first-section-paved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=4130","title":{"rendered":"First section paved."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thats alotta engraving.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I completed the first of many sections of paved areas for the terminal today.\u00a0 Kept the laser going for about 4 hours to complete the pieces for this.<\/p>\n

Each section I engraved was about 3″x6″ and had to be laminated onto a base, which I framed to simulate the way the pavers were installed in the terminal.\u00a0 Once complete, I gave it a light coat of grey primer.<\/p>\n

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I am pretty happy with the results.\u00a0 Shows up great in close up shots.<\/p>\n

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I put quite a bit of effort into the bitmaps used for engraving to ensure there were not noticeable patterns in the brickwork, as there was only a single images duplicated over and over to create the large section.<\/p>\n

I was able to do this by carefully manipulating the brightness and contrast of sections of the image, as well as mirroring and flipping it so no two sections were next to each other.<\/p>\n

The areas where sections were physically glued together are a bit noticeable, but I am pretty sure I can hide those with some weathering and other details.\u00a0 Unfortunately I won’t be able to do any of that until it is all installed, otherwise I am concerned I will not be able to maintain consistency in the effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thats alotta engraving. I completed the first of many sections of paved areas for the terminal today.\u00a0 Kept the laser going for about 4 hours to complete the pieces for this. Each section I engraved was about 3″x6″ and had to be laminated onto a base, which I framed to simulate the way the pavers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}