Virtual reality mountain panorama without batteries

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Description This design is not meant to be a ready to print model! It is a guideline on how to generate mountain panorama's from a specific viewpoint. The provided .stl's are only meant to be examples. The idea is to hold up the printed panorama, look over it and align it with the visible skyline. Yes I know there are very nice apps for your mobile telephone that do this. But this method is a challenge to make. It is a nice gadget when you have a vacation home in the mountains, to show your guests. Of course you want to generate a panorama of your specific location. Instructions First: Go to the website: https://www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/makepanoramas.htm Select your viewpoint (enter coordinates, search for a name, or select from the map). Set the direction, viewing angle, distance etc.. See the screenshots above. You have to play around a bit for the best results. Then download the generated pdf image. The result is an image where all the peaks are marked. (see picture above) Second: Convert the .pdf to a.png file. Load the image in your Foto application and remove the background labels. Now you have an image with only the mountains, terrain and a blank sky. How to remove the background exactly is dependent on the application you use. I use Skylum Neo AI. For the result see the picture above. Third: Go to the site https://3dp.rocks/lithophane/ to generate a litophane. Upload your image. I used the model settings as in the pictures above. A 300 mm width is more or less adequate. Do not select too many vectors per image pixel. It will generate a huge stl. (See the screenshots and the .stl named “GeneratedLitophane”) Fourth: Open Fusion 360 and insert the selected stl. Scale the stl (I did to 600 mm width, for 3 panels of 200 mm on my printer). Reduce the mesh to a limited nr. of triangles, I selected something between 10'000 and 20'000. Too many faces will slow down Fusion 360 dramatically. Generate a plane just above the “sky” level and cut the model horizontally. Keep only the mountains. Convert the mesh into a solid. Generate a plane approx 2 mm above the highest level. Use this plane to sketch in all the peak labels with names and arrows that you like to have. You probably have to use the very first generated image as a guide. Extrude and join all the labels. Define where you want to cut the total model, and generate the nr. of printable models you want. I also created a few 1.8 mm alignment holes where you can put in pieces of filament to align the parts during gluing. Export the meshes. Fifth: Slice the models. I used 0.2 mm layer height. Insert a color change a few layers down the top of the labels. Sixth: Load the gcode and print your models. Seventh: Insert some small pieces of filament (Approx 6 mm) and glue the parts together. And: Have fun, do not give up too early, and please give feedback.