A holographic spinning top
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Some new things in this spinning top.
For the first time I used holographic materials to decorate the spinning top: I think the effect is nice, as you can see in the video;
In the first part of the video there are mainly diffuse light conditions and the holo powder and flakes appear silver color, then in the second part of the video I used a direct light, so the holographic powder/flakes reflect the light with the colors of the rainbow.
For the first time I made the flywheel of inox steel, (I wanted to make this top set all silver color and black, the only colors come from the reflections on the holographic materials). One good thing about inox steel is that it is easy to keep clean, this metal does not oxidize like copper and brass do: even after years this top will continue to be very shining and beautiful like when it was new.
I made the stem of the top like that of my top Nr. 25, empty inside and with holes around as for decoration.
The top is designed for very long spin times, (up to approximately 50 minutes), the tip can be replaced and resharpened when necessary.
The top has three balancing screws in the flywheel which are for fine tune the balance of the top.
For the first time I used Chroma Key, making the video;
the sequence of the top spinning with the rocks background is made of various layers superimposed, the top, the rocks, the sky, the rainbow, which are different images/videos combined together;
it was especially difficult to cut the profile of the precessing spinning top because the top surface is like a mirror and there were blue reflections on the top of the blue background used for the Chroma Key.
But The video editor I used, (Da Vinci Resolve), is very powerful and in the end I could fulfill the task.
The rocks in the video are made of natural carborundum: they are black, with colorful reflections, (which are real, I didn't add them in the video).
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Amazing top, as always!
Great use of diffraction colors!
Thank you, Jorge ! I will add some more details about the video and the top in the forum.
Another masterpiece! Well done Iacopo!
Many thanks, Andre !
Waiting for the next one :)
I already started making it, a snakewood/brass/turquoises one. I have nice turquoises with intense color from Arizona for it. The top should be ready at the end of January.
Awesome.
Thanks !
bravo sir, you are a unique and incredible artist.
Thank you, Tchernosplif !
Beautiful top and amazing video! How did you film the scene at 0:16
Hi Pasi, your last video too is very nice, with picturesque images !
The sequence you refer to was made with Chroma Key, (google for "green screen" too, you find all the info).
That scene doesn't exist, it's a combination of some videos/photos put together.
I explained how I did in this thread:
www.ta0.com/forum/index.php?topic=6017.0
@@iacoposimonelli7191 Thanks! Oh, green screen! I need to learn how to do that.
I want one of your amazing tops. How can i buy one? Oh yes...and please 😊
Hi, Lex Orr. There is not a serial production of my tops, they are largely hand crafted and I make only a few ones of them per year. It takes me more than 100 hours to make a top like this one, so they are expensive.
In any case, if you are really interested, you can contact me in the ITopSpin forum.
@@iacoposimonelli7191 i know they are expensive but so worth it. I tried looking up itopspin forum and didn't see a way to reach you 🤔
@@iacoposimonelli7191this is the only method I'm finding to reach you. I love the videos of your amazing spinning art. Would love the opportunity to watch the spinning art live and in person 🙏😍
I'm searching on RUclips and Facebook and I'm not finding an itopspin forum. I apoligize as I I'm not able to find the forum. How else can I reach you to learn how to purchase one of your spinning treasures?
@@lex1633 Lex Orr , it is the biggest forum about spinning tops:
www.ta0.com/forum/index.php?board=8.0
Anyway you should subscribe to have the possibility to post and contact me there.
Wonderful as always! I think the monochrome colour scheme is very nice. Are you moving away from metal - wood tops? I think both are beautiful.
Thank you, James ! I love wood and I will continue using it, (the next one will be a snakewood/brass top), but also I want to experiment and in this case I felt that, with this holographic materials, "black and silver and no other colors" was a best way to go. I have also other kinds of holographic powders and flakes which produce different effects, I will make some other holo tops in the future, but different from this one.
Three good quality photos of this top:
imgur.com/tbu0Hn9
imgur.com/VZ7yC94
imgur.com/nEAiEt8