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. One scene in particular always stuck with me and that was when the crew of the Icarus II gathered to watch the transit of Mercury. Two minutes with no dialogue, 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 particular scene, I drew a series of artwork based on it. Now, many years later, I'm continuing my series with 3D printing. I designed this set of five panels to be printed six different ways, mostly setting 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, while the bottom flame layer is at the 4mm mark, and 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 a higher flame border has the border at the 6mm mark. Printing this up with .20 for each layer works perfectly. For the multi-material versions, I've included four options. Two of them have the bottom, mid, and top flames levels grouped up so each level can be assigned to a filament color as well as Mercury, and both options include 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 in these options. 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 series. If you haven't seen Sunshine, I highly recommend checking it out on YouTube by searching for "Sunshine Official Trailer" or visiting https://youtu.be/UcNu3AML1L0 . Here's the Mercury in transit clip that started all of this: https://youtu.be/aYKq1qfdmWk Edit 11/9/18: I added numbers to the bottom to easily tell the layout sequence.