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Very nice. But your preview visualization uses what I assume to be close to final art, including all the flaps and all. With web inspector (and some curl) I was

by flixic 14y ago

Very nice. But your preview visualization uses what I assume to be close to final art, including all the flaps and all. With web inspector (and some curl) I was able to extract all the layers, combine them together, and get a printable file: http://cl.ly/JprN http://cl.ly/JprN I'm sure most of HN visitors would be able to do the same. Not sure if you should patch it, though: your target audience will surely won't do things like that, and visualization is already a complex beast. Anyway, thanks for the free foldable design (:

marcelfalliere 14y ago
Same. Took me 15 minutes to figure it out and assemble the thing. I used webkit console and gimp. And since I have a hand down on the image, I can personnalize it to be me even more. Heisenberg is my go-to t-shirt http://i.imgur.com/BwQU9.png http://i.imgur.com/BwQU9.png
- hakkasan 14y ago
  Nice! User designed t-shirts would be a rad idea. Try this on for size: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7brn6w9t11qk6saio1_1280.jpg http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7brn6w9t11qk6saio1_1280.j...
whalesalad 14y ago
Did you pirate that copy of Photoshop too? Show us your /etc/hosts file! Hah I tease, I tease. But seriously though.
- flixic 14y ago
  Proudly showing how I paid a few thousand dollars to corporation that showed total disregard to its users[1][2] http://cl.ly/JspZ http://cl.ly/JspZ [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3952263 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3952263 [2] https://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topics/why_are_uk_prices_nearly_double_us_prices https://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topics/why_are_uk_prices_n...
ChuckMcM 14y ago
And the point is? So you can pirate one, so what? The concept doesn't live or die on the everyone coming in contact with it having enough integrity to either pay for it or pass, if nobody paid for it that would be a problem of course but the fact that you, flixic, figured out how to not pay isn't really much more of an issue than someone jumping the gate at the subway, or sneaking into the back of a movie theater.
hakkasan 14y ago
Oh wow. We never expected someone to go to those lengths. If you send us an image of your assembled Foldable we'd be happy to send you, free of charge, our version printed on laminated, high stock card, precision cut and pre-creased so there's no gluing or cutting needed. Just want to make sure you have something to compare against ;-)
- Chaotic 14y ago
  What a refreshing attitude - someone finds a way around the paywall and your response is - "oh yeah!? well our execution is better! And we'll prove it too!" I would love if it all companies took this approach instead of DRM/litigation. Hats off to you.
  - fcbrooklyn 14y ago
    Heh, the first foldable prototypes were made by cutting these things out with an exacto knife. If you ever saw someone do that, you'd know why we're confident that the die-cutting is valuable.
    - bking 14y ago
      pepakura nightmares!!!!!
    - jamesbritt 14y ago
      There's tremendous satisfaction in cutting this by hand. And with the Cubee template there's far less risk of slicing yourself.
      - gknoy 14y ago
        Thanks for the suggestion! I'll share a link to (what is from what I can tell by a quick search) thee template: http://www.cubeecraft.com/template.html http://www.cubeecraft.com/template.html
  - hakkasan 14y ago
    Gotta stand by your work.
chopsueyar 14y ago
You could always buy one of these from Amazon... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005Y1CPSU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B005Y1CPSU&linkCode=as2&tag=littdidd-20 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005Y1CPSU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... I know it is not a laser cutter (it uses a miniature blade), but you can take existing artwork or printouts and get really nice cuts with the software and USB. It can also score, for the folding portions. I've used it for similar projects (kirigami - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirigami http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirigami) and glass etching (making stencils). Not bad for less than $300. Anyways, awesome site and a cool idea. I wish you guys much success!
- hakkasan 14y ago
  That looks pretty rad. Would be great for prototyping.

by flixic 14y ago

marcelfalliere 14y ago

Same. Took me 15 minutes to figure it out and assemble the thing. I used webkit console and gimp. And since I have a hand down on the image, I can personnalize it to be me even more. Heisenberg is my go-to t-shirt http://i.imgur.com/BwQU9.png http://i.imgur.com/BwQU9.png

hakkasan 14y ago
Nice! User designed t-shirts would be a rad idea. Try this on for size: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7brn6w9t11qk6saio1_1280.jpg http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7brn6w9t11qk6saio1_1280.j...

whalesalad 14y ago

Did you pirate that copy of Photoshop too? Show us your /etc/hosts file! Hah I tease, I tease. But seriously though.

flixic 14y ago
Proudly showing how I paid a few thousand dollars to corporation that showed total disregard to its users[1][2] http://cl.ly/JspZ http://cl.ly/JspZ [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3952263 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3952263 [2] https://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topics/why_are_uk_prices_nearly_double_us_prices https://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topics/why_are_uk_prices_n...

ChuckMcM 14y ago

And the point is? So you can pirate one, so what? The concept doesn't live or die on the everyone coming in contact with it having enough integrity to either pay for it or pass, if nobody paid for it that would be a problem of course but the fact that you, flixic, figured out how to not pay isn't really much more of an issue than someone jumping the gate at the subway, or sneaking into the back of a movie theater.

hakkasan 14y ago

Oh wow. We never expected someone to go to those lengths. If you send us an image of your assembled Foldable we'd be happy to send you, free of charge, our version printed on laminated, high stock card, precision cut and pre-creased so there's no gluing or cutting needed. Just want to make sure you have something to compare against ;-)

Chaotic 14y ago
What a refreshing attitude - someone finds a way around the paywall and your response is - "oh yeah!? well our execution is better! And we'll prove it too!" I would love if it all companies took this approach instead of DRM/litigation. Hats off to you.
- fcbrooklyn 14y ago
  Heh, the first foldable prototypes were made by cutting these things out with an exacto knife. If you ever saw someone do that, you'd know why we're confident that the die-cutting is valuable.
  - bking 14y ago
    pepakura nightmares!!!!!
  - jamesbritt 14y ago
    There's tremendous satisfaction in cutting this by hand. And with the Cubee template there's far less risk of slicing yourself.
    - gknoy 14y ago
      Thanks for the suggestion! I'll share a link to (what is from what I can tell by a quick search) thee template: http://www.cubeecraft.com/template.html http://www.cubeecraft.com/template.html
- hakkasan 14y ago
  Gotta stand by your work.

chopsueyar 14y ago

You could always buy one of these from Amazon... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005Y1CPSU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B005Y1CPSU&linkCode=as2&tag=littdidd-20 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005Y1CPSU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... I know it is not a laser cutter (it uses a miniature blade), but you can take existing artwork or printouts and get really nice cuts with the software and USB. It can also score, for the folding portions. I've used it for similar projects (kirigami - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirigami http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirigami) and glass etching (making stencils). Not bad for less than $300. Anyways, awesome site and a cool idea. I wish you guys much success!

hakkasan 14y ago
That looks pretty rad. Would be great for prototyping.