类型: IC
作者: japanitrat
发布时间: 2016-10-06
18:53:31
更新时间: 2016-10-10 19:33:15
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=85070.0
Hey guys,
I just wanted to quickly share what I did a few months
ago but never got around to finish.
It’s missing a lot of things such as uniformly themed
novelty keys, different kits, and so on. But I think the
idea is cool and I should just share it for getting feedback
and continue working on it maybe.
DSA Discovery is meant to be a dye sublimated DSA
keyset,
reminiscent of the white/grey/black/red exterior and
interior designs of well known space crafts such as NASA
space shuttles. In particular, I wanted it to feature
Eurostile for the legends since it’s a very distinct font
used in many great science fiction movies. And I wanted it
to be somewhat novel in terms of the general design, not
just the colors.
Originally, it was supposed to be dark
grey set with light legends. Unfortunately, just making the
font molds for the legends is so expensive that this is not
an option (as most of you may know, there is already a
project for that, led by CQ_Cumbers, which didn’t make any
progress for quite a while now). So I focused on dye
sublimation on bright base colors which led to quite a few
new ideas. I experimented with subtle patterns, different
shades of grey on the same key and adding different shapes
uniformly to all keys, among other things. Here comes the
base idea:
Light variant
Dark variant
As you can see, the distinct feature is the dark grey
stripe at the bottom edge of each key. The mods have thicker ones with inverted legends to spice
it up a little and to provide room for providing additional
graphics in the main area of the key. It started out without
the inverted legends but it looked very much like Granite,
despite the different font, imho. Just for reference, here
is a picture (not a favoring it, tbh):
More
3D renders
Just to see how this would roughly
look. I don’t have models for the modifiers so here is just
a 1U ESC example:
Kerning is a bit off. Would fix that in the final
stages.
Is that kind of print even possible?
Still
unclear on that. I contacted SP and they replied that an
edge-to-edge print is certainly possible. However, the
tolerance space is 0.020 inches. As the design emphasizes
the edges (and the inverted mods are even closer to them),
it might be the case that even smallest deviations would
kill the look (my assumption). I will try to get a sample
and decide from there on.
Mod extensions
With the
light and dark variant I was quite happy so I was starting
to look into making this set more unique. I tried different
things for the mods, like providing a sutble background
pattern (doable using dye sub as far as I know), or adding
additional horizontal bars:
Novelty ideas
The extended mod designs were
okay-ish but what I actually wanted was novelty keys that
really distinguish the set from others. So I started to play
with just very simple but bold geometric shapes for the
mods:
Or these ones, inspired by the movie “Moon”:
Or these ones which are much finer and colorful (kind
of reminds me of WipeOut):
What do you think?
This is all I have sitting
around for months now. As I said, I feel that I struggle
badly with the novelties and other things turned up in life
so I had to put this on ice. Anyhow, I needed to get this
off my chest and see if there is any interest in me pursuing
this any further. All feedback is welcome. Ideas for
novelties – please shoot
Thanks for checking it out!
Updates
October
10: Added a couple of 3D renders for 1U key and added info
from SP
October 7: Typos