> the lamp shades are cool...anything special needed to make them? > http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/ipt/a-newspix/2004-davidhazy-1.jpg Well, you can take the "analog" approach and make them as I did before computers were around. A description of how they are made is available online here: http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-conical-strip.html Or, you can take the post computer splash approach and simply take a conventional cylindrical panoramic or peripheral (aka rollout) photograph and use some image distortion software to "bend" the image so that it becomes part of a circular version of the original rectangular image. It now will be wedge shaped and when you join the two ends the solid you form will be a cone. Print the image on Duratrans or similar and you have it. andy Andrew Davidhazy, Professor School of Photographic Arts and Sciences/RIT andpph@xxxxxxx http://www.rit.edu/~andpph
