Mercury In Transit (Multi-Material version included)

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After seeing the movie Sunshine by Danny Boyle many years ago I fell deeply in love with it. To this day, whenever I watch it, many parts of it still fill me with awe and wonder. One scene in particular always stuck with me - when the crew of the Icarus II gathered to witness the transit of Mercury. Two minutes of sheer beauty, John Murphy's calming score, and the incredible visual of Mercury passing in front of the sun left a lasting impression on me. After this unforgettable scene, I drew a series of artwork inspired by it. Now, many years later, I'm continuing my artistic journey with 3D printing. I designed a set of five panels to be printed six different ways. Mostly, I wanted to set this up for multi-material printing so when my MMU2 arrives, I'll be ready to print them myself. Until then, I made mine with filament layer changes. The black border around the flames is at the 3mm mark. The bottom flame layer is at the 4mm mark. The middle flame layer is at the 5mm mark. The top flame layer is also at the 5mm mark, and Mercury, on the fourth panel, is at the 7mm mark. The version with the higher flame border has the border at the 6mm mark. Printing these up with .20 for each layer works perfectly. For the multi-material versions, I've included four options. Two versions have the bottom, mid, and top flames levels grouped together so each level can be assigned to a filament color as well as Mercury, and both options for a sunk in or raised flame border. Then there are two versions where you can choose the filament for each and every single flame for every level. Both high and low flame borders are included for this option as well. You can download the multi-material files here: https://www.thingiverse.com/things/2835113, as Pinshape doesn't allow .zip files and has a maximum of 150 files. With each individual flame being a file, two of the versions brought the file count to over 600. The five panels are meant to be lined up in the order they appear and spaced half an inch apart from each other, as many of the flames flow from one panel to the next. Plan your filament colors accordingly with that in mind. I hope you enjoy this creation! If you haven't seen Sunshine, go check it out - https://youtu.be/UcNu3AML1L0. Here's the Mercury in transit clip that started all of this: https://youtu.be/aYKq1qfdmWk.