There are times when you come up with an idea and you know it, you're so certain it's going to be a knockout idea.  You plan it, spend hours writing the additional code, laser cut it, and put it together and...say, "Well, that didn't work out so well."

This was an expansion on the previous acrylic models created and added a layer of complexity that wasn't only unnecessary but stuffed it all up.  The previous, unadorned planes have a simplicity to them.  They look almost ghostly, like they aren't there.  These planes just make themselves so apparent and such a jumbled mess that it's pretty much a waste of time.  The biggest problem is that instead of having a solid plane, there is a border on the object and the center is cut away (see first picture).  The problem is that with acrylic, it creates all these facets that catch the light and create so many areas where the light reflects and bounces around it is no longer clear what the object is and it becomes an incoherent mess.  Each of the corners and each of the edges creates light artifacts.

This page is here because it can be important to see when failures occurred but also realize that sometimes, it can lead to better things.  Turns out, these cut-out centers work a lot better when non-acrylic material are used and the programming was later used with the mesh-like objects you'll see on other pages.