A spectacular “cosmic eye” has been photographed in space by a telescope in Chile, showing a distant nebula in which sunlike stars are burning themselves out.
The image of the Helix nebula, which lies 700 light years away in the constellation Aquarius, was captured with the Wide Field Imager instrument at the La Silla Observatory high above the Atacama Desert.
Already amazing in color and already resembling the human eye, when duplicated, it has an incredible resemblance to the human face.
This very high resolution image would be excellent for police stations, or anywhere else where big brother may be watching. Then again, maybe it’s better for a church. This image can be produced at up to 10′ high, by up to 40′ in width.
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Art, eyes, Images, space
The occasional wallcovering job will bring you face to face with a measurement nightmare.
- What if you have to provide a mural that runs around all four sides of a room, and has to match up perfectly from starting edge to final edge?
- What if you have to provide 4 sides of an interior wall and have the beginning and end of the mural match up?
This isn’t your momma’s dainty flower design that you can hack together in the corner above the door. You have to be dead on to please the customer.
What do you do? Read more…
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Because of the materials involved and the printing process, occasional problems arise in digital prints that are due to material shrinkage.
How does this happen? - Wallcoverings are fabric backed, but can still stretch under normal conditions (a very small amount). When heated, as when under an ink jet printer, and pulled taught between rollers, some stretching occurs. This minimal amount is usually only 0.25% or less. When cooled, the wallcovering material is usually not pulled taught (as on the take-off of the ink jet printer) and returns to its actual size. –This means that the printed design is now 0.25% smaller than it was intended to be.
0.25% shrinkage, big deal, right? I’ve had customers deal with high height projects (40′ heights in a casino) that had shrinkage of nearly 1.5″. This is a BIG deal for if you are matching other architectural components. Read more…
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Shrinkage, wallcovering
