Rick Measham <rickm*at%isite.net.au> wrote:
> > Rick Measham <rickm*at%isite.net.au> wrote:
> >>I'm not a real photographer, but I have food dye, a scanner and there's
> >>sure to be a dollar coin around here someplace.
>
> Found a coin, got the food-dye ready. Didn't work. First problem is that
> flatbed scanners still have an offset light and so the image is lit from
> one direction still.

Drats!

> Second problem is the coin traps air in the food-dye in the etching.

Double drats.
>
> I tried watering down the dye, and it worked a little better, but not much.
>
> The only thing I could think was to use deep enough mixture that the
> coin could be flipped around until there was no air pockets. However
> that would require some sort of glass container with a perfectly flat
> base.

That makes sense.

>I don't have one of those outside of povray!

:)

>
> If you've any more ideas, I'm happy to play!

Thanks for giving it a go. I've spent all weekend trying to improve the
milling. It's *so* hard to get it looking right.

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