When I got the vinyl cutter, I was immediately excited to try cutting lenticular lens. Nicole Cabalquinto and I started working with them last semester and created a series of light sculptures with them for the 2019 Winter Show.

Using templatemaker.nl, I created 3D forms out of lenticular following patterns for Platonic Solids. A platonic solid is a regular, convex polyhedron. It is constructed by congruent (identical in shape and size), regular (all angles equal and all sides equal), polygonal faces with the same number of faces meeting at each vertex. After creating the files, I send them to through adobe illustrator for some minor changes that make vinyl cutting easier, then to the silhouette studio software to cut.

It turned out that the Cameo 4 vinyl cutter is not strong enough to cut through lenticular with the normal blade. It is however able to score it deeply enough to peel apart the lens along the guide lines.