类型: GB
作者: Dotnick
发布时间: 2021-09-18 09:37:48
更新时间:
2021-11-07 19:48:08
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=114642.0
GMK Chaos Theory
Hey everyone,
It has been
a long time coming but here it finally is, GMK Chaos Theory!
I have been really inspired recently by the topic of chaos
theory and everything that is involved including parallel
dimensions, multiple universes, the duality of chaos and
order, and the math/physics that underpins all of this as
well. These are pretty abstract concepts to distill into a
keycap set, but I hope you all find something to enjoy out
of it!
Vendors
US:
Mekibo
CA:
Ashkeebs
SA:
Fancy Customs
EU:
CandyKeys
UK:
proto[Typist]
OCE:
SwitchKeys
SEA:
iLumkb
PHI:
Zion Studios
S. Korea:
KLC Playground
CN/Int’l:
KBDFans
GB will run from October 8, 2021 to
November 15, 2021.
Expected delivery:
Q4 2022
Pricing
Colors
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I was going through my late father’s comics collection when
I stumbled upon a box of old sci-fi artwork from the 70s and
80s that absolutely stunned me. While it is hard to put
colors to the abstract themes of chaos theory, I found that
these comics and the dystopian or sometimes euphoric scenes
that they depict did a wonderful job of synthesizing the
concepts of parallel dimensions, alternate realities, and
much more into lush color palettes.
**This first
unnamed piece by Yoshihisa Sadamatsu inspired the
fundamental colors of the set.
**
**I pulled much of the inspiration for the accent
colors around the three fundamental colors of the set from
these pieces:
**
1) Unnamed piece by Anton Brzezinski
2) Plains of Tartarus by Bruce Pennington
3) Colonies in Space by TA Heppenheimer (1977)
4) Lost World, vol. 1 by Bruce Pennington
These last two pieces guided me artistically:
5) Unnamed piece by Hiroshi Manabe (early 70s)
6) The Man in the Maze by Bruce Pennington
Kits
The Order and
Chaos base kits provide support for 60%,
65%, 75%, and TKL layouts for terminal ISO and ANSI layouts.
There is also support for ergonomic/split keyboard layouts
(split space bars and a second B). The R4 2.25U
shift supports 660-like and type K layouts. F13 requiring
boards and 40% keyboards (R3 1.50U Enter, R3 1.25U Tab, R2
1.75U Backspace) are also supported.
Novelties explainer:
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The main novelty that repeats in the accent colors is the
symbol of chaos.
The concepts of ordered and disordered
systems are two commonly studied and connected topics within
chaos theory that I wanted to represent artistically in the
novelties. In the paired columns of novelties, the symbol of
chaos and the symbol of extropy (the extent of a living or
organizational system’s capacity and drive for improvement
and growth) are featured. Continuing down from R2-R4, two
columns of novelties depict fundamental shapes (hexagon,
square, triangle, and circle/spiral) in ordered and
disordered forms.
The ISO enter novelty is an abstract
rendition of the nautilus shell/logarithmic spiral motif
(for anyone interested in what exactly the spiral ratio is,
I recommend reading
this
and
this).
Two R4 1.25U and 1.50U text novelties commemorate
famous scientists who have contributed significantly to the
field of chaos theory.
Candykeys has guaranteed that this kit will be
made.
Renders
618 by
Zepsody
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Void by MISFIT
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Pulsar by
Zepsody
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Other
Deskpads
Minimal
shapes deskpad
Butterfly effect deskpad by
Tabijey
Metal Artisan by Keylabs Crucible
Aluminum base anodized to match the modifiers dark
purple and randomly infilled with a combination of two of
the pink, green, purple, yellow, and red accent colors from
the set.
There are 20 possible combinations, please
forgive the lack of static renders.
Metal Artisan by HIBI
Brass base with colorful PVD coating and a luminous
glow enamel fill.
This design is a depiction of the
Lorenz attractor butterfly motif.
Static angles:
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Singularity switches
More information:
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Switch specs:
Manufacturer is Tecsee
Rainbow
aluminum-plated full nylon housings
Linear long pole
POM stem (3.4mm travel) color matched to the pink accent of
GMK Chaos Theory
68g 15mm standard gold springs
Each
switch’s rainbow metal plating will be different and appear
differently.
These will be reviewed by
Sampakpak
and
Shoobs
sometime in October, so look out for that!
This
specific colorway of Tecsee’s metal plated switches will
only run for the GMK Chaos Theory GB and will not be made
again.
EVERY SWITCH WILL LOOK DIFFERENT AS A
CONSEQUENCE OF THE PLATING PROCESS
please open up the
second more tab to see the variance:
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Space Cables Collaboration
Artisans collaborations
Archetype
Dreadkeys
Winkeys
GooeyKeys
DestroyerCaps
SodieCaps
PiterKiwi
Keycaps
Keylabs
SludgeKidd
TinyMakesThings
PrimeCaps
LividityCaps
American
Haptics - workmat
I am welcome to any other makers,
please just message me on discord!
Easily answered
questions
1) Will the metal switches be expensive?
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They will be on the higher end of switch prices because the
aluminum plating process is very expensive as is, but I have
fronted the injection molding cost myself and will be making
zero profit off of these. The vendors will
be running these at largely break-even costs with profits
from the caps sales helping to offset any losses. So these
will be as affordable as physically possible.
2) Numpad is separate again, why?
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With this as well, I wanted to put as much compatibility
into the base kit as possible while keeping the price around
the $110-$115USD price range, which I could not achieve with
numpad in the base kit.
Hence, I broke out numpad into
a child kit. I will not be taking profit from the numpad
kit, so it will be slightly cheaper than usual for this
reason. I hope this helps.
3) There are so many colors, won’t that make
colormatching take a long time?
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I totally understand this concern with GMK sets
particularly.
In order to mitigate the time required
for colormatching and to help with the precision of these
colors, all colors for this set are Pantone-referenced
colors and four out of the seven of them have previously
been color matched by GMK for other sets (deltaE values
below 3). I thankfully have permission to use these
references.
While there are a few more factors to
consider with colormatching such as the stock color of the
sourced plastic used differing from batch to batch, having
pre-colormatched samples should certainly help in the long
run.
4) Why only backwards alphas and not everything
else?
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That was not financially feasible in just this single
project. So we split this project up into two parts, this
first part accomplishes getting molds for the alphas and a
follow-up project (GMK Pure Chaos) will accomplish getting
molds for the modifiers (yes, I will only be doing this for
backwards icon mods as of now).
5) This looks like GMK _________, where’s the
comparison?
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Color comparisons are on the way for all the sets that
people have shown interest in seeing comparisons for
(Cojiro, 8008, Future Funk, Olivia, and Moondust).
6) Did you consider taking a more mathematical approach
to the novelties?
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I definitely did, I actually spent two months studying chaos
theory out of personal interest.
I tried initially to
depict things like the Mandelbrot set, a bifurcation plot,
or a strange attractor in the novelties, but it became
difficult due to the expanding nature of these figures.
Something else I considered was featuring some key equations
on novelties but I did not like the look of writing out
complex equations on a keycap, not to mention that most of
them did not fit within the length of the cap unless the
print was extremely fine, which became visually very
unbalanced and hard to read (something that dye sublimation
would not have helped).
It became increasingly apparent
the more that I tried that it would be simpler and classier
to pay homage to some of the famous scientists by featuring
their names as text novelties (permitting that their names
fit the length of the caps).
I made a metal artisan
design of a Lorenz attractor that I may run separately as it
wasn’t possible to fit it into this groupbuy. We will
see.
7) Why did you decide to go with doubleshot for this
project as opposed to dye sublimation?
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If CRP was an option, I would be throwing this project at
them without hesitation.
However, with the currently
accessible manufacturers for dye-sublimated PBT keycaps, I
was worried about some of the colors and novelties of this
set not being achieved as precisely as I would like. While
the dye-sublimation restrictions for novelties designs would
have allowed more detailed iconography, ink bleed and legend
crispness remains a major concern with this manufacturing
process.
GMK colormatching is not perfect. But, for
saturated colors like the ones I have chosen, it has a
better shot of achieving them than dye-sublimation does.
If
you have any more questions, please join my server and I
would be more than happy to answer your questions!
Credits
Pikku-allu
Ray (rkristia)
ZTMD
Everyone in
my discord server
Thank you for your support. Please join my discord
for updates on this set and artisan collaborations!
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