Up the Downstair - Porcupine Tree Album Art

Up the Downstair - 1993
 

I fell through a hole in the floor,
the audience cried out for more.
Fadeaway, it's just another day

I love Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree's music, so I created a set of 3D printable abstractions to represent his discography.

Unlike my previous beverage coasters, these Porcupine Tree ones are just for display as 2.5D art. It is square like a CD or vinyl album sleeve.

I recreated all of Porcupine Tree's albums in a way that are interesting for 3D printing:

• only two or three colors
• highlights the most recognizable element by “sticking” out of the background
• interesting infills, top patterns and other unusual, experimental approaches
• no supports
• print in parts, use pause-and-change filament, or with MMU/AMS
• glue is needed for a final assembly if printing in parts
   

If you like Steven Wilson's work, don't miss my other album covers.

--------Print instructions----------
 

Without input shaper, printing slow to help definition, 20mm/s for example.
Infill at least 15% to hold top layers or text above, but you can play with patterns and higher percentages. I left some open tops to expose the infill some times!
I didn't use brims or rafts, but you can if you experience warping, especially in the square corners. Temporary water-based adhesive is useful too.

• No supports
   
• Pause-and-change-filament at certain heights to have different colors, even with a regular FDM setup. With MMU it's even easier
   
• Scale to whatever size is convenient for you. If the height is too deep you can scale it down in the Z axis
   
• Feel free to experiment with colors and top fill patterns
   
• Adaptive layers can help speed up through just square parts, and then have more resolution on text above.

I printed the one you see in my photos in one go and changed filament with pauses. The square background started switching from red > light pink (pastel) > bright pink. It has no top layers to expose a thick gyroid infill, it looks knit or pixelated, a good effect for the diffused clouds in the art.

Modeled by Mexican designer Dany Sánchez, creator of MiniWorld3D & OpenFigure3D.

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