All of this user’s content is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

  • 40 Posts
  • 196 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: October 20th, 2023

help-circle








  • My PC is still largely the same, in general spirit, as when I built it (c 2014-2015). But I have had to upgrade some key components over time. First was the move from a 1TB WD Blue HDD to a Samsung 860 Pro 128GB SSD (for my OS’s drive), and, related to that, at some point soon after, I moved my games drive from an HDD to an SSD. Next, I upgraded my GPU from an Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 to a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080. This build state lasted a decently long time until I switched from Windows to Linux, so I switched my Nvidia GPU to an AMD Radeon RX 6600 (not exactly an upgrade, but more of a side-grade) to improve the user experience. The most recent change (last year, iirc?) was upgrading my RAM from 8GB DDR3, to 16GB DDR3. My CPU (Intel Core i5-4690k) is starting to really show its age, though, so I’ve been wanting to upgrade that, but that will likely entail a near rebuild of my entire system, so I’ve been avoiding it, but, unfortunately, it’s increasingly becoming more of an issue.





  • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.workstoArt Share🎨@lemmy.worldTitanium Sunset
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    I think this is a very clever idea! Very cool! You mentioned that it was anodized to look like this [2]. The colors, to me, are reminiscent of the colors that steel produces when heated [1]. Is there any similarity in the process, or is this something completely separate?

    References
    1. “Heat Tint (Temper) Colours on Stainless Steel Surface Heated in Air”. British Stainless Steel Association. Accessed: 2025-01-04T22:16Z. https://bssa.org.uk/bssa_articles/heat-tint-temper-colours-on-stainless-steel-surface-heated-in-air/.
      • §“Heat tint colour chart”
        • This chart shows the range of colours that form on the surface of stainless steel (described as an oxide layer), as a function of temperature, when it is heated.
    2. “Titanium Sunset”. @scribbler@lemmy.world. “Art Share” !artshare@lemmy.world. sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2025-01-04T21:47:50Z. Accessed: 2025-01-04T22:30Z. https://sh.itjust.works/post/30589186.

      […] I’ve been experimenting with creating art by selectively anodizing titanium. […] This piece started off as a photo of a beach at sunset that I color mapped into the anodized Ti spectrum and printed.