The Raven That Refused To Sing - Steven Wilson Album Coaster

The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
 

Sing to me, Lily,
I miss you so much

I love Steven Wilson's music, and so I created a set of 3D printable abstractions to represent his discography.

This can be used as a beverage coaster, or just for display. It is square like a CD or vinyl album sleeve.

This is his third solo album, The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories), released in 2012. A critical and commercial success, it features songs based in supernatural stories and a guitar-driven progressive rock sound, contrasting with the previous album from just one year before, Grace for Drowning.

I avoided the actual album cover as a lithophane or MMU-only photo. Instead, I simplified it into something friendly for FDM regular setups, inspired by album art and tour merch. 
My design is simply the silhouette of a raven.

If you like Steven Wilson's work, don't miss my other album covers.

--------Print instructions----------
 

Printing slowly helps with definition of letters and to reduce imperfections, 20mm/s for example. Input shaper ok.
Infill at least 15% to hold top layers or text above, but you can play with patterns and higher percentages.
I didn't use brims or rafts, but you can if you experience warping, especially in the square corners. Temporary water-based adhesive is useful too.

• No supports
   
• Pause-and-change-filament at certain heights to have different colors, even with a regular FDM setup. With MMU it's even easier
   
• Scale to whatever size is convenient for you. If the height is too deep you can scale it down in the Z axis
   
• Feel free to experiment with colors and top fill patterns
   
• Adaptive layers can help speed up through just square parts, and then have more resolution on text above.

I printed the one you see in my photos switching between black and beige filaments, without a top layer, leaving the Archimedean Chords (spiral) infill exposed.

Modeled by Mexican designer Dany Sánchez, creator of MiniWorld3D & OpenFigure3D.

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