Project: Obsidian
Obsidian, defined by dictionary.com as the following:
n. A usually black or banded, hard volcanic glass that displays shiny, curved surfaces when fractured and is formed by rapid cooling of lava.
Not quite the look I'll be going for, but the name seemed appropriate.
The inspiration for this case comes from a William Gibson novel, Idoru. In the book Gibson describes a computer that is a simple black cube, no visible controls or indicators of any kind. When active, the computer's case had several different colored lights inside of it, and they would display different patterns and sequences based on what the computer was doing.
The original plan was to create a case mod based on this design, however since is the first mod I'm attempting, I thought it might be best to start smaller and work my way up.
This design is similar to my original thought, although instead of a simple black cube with multi-colored lights mounted everywhere, the lighting will be concentrated on the top and along lines moving across and down the case.
A second inspiration for this case came from a walk thru a local store's electronics’ section. I happened upon a small clock radio, who's face was backlit with multiple colors. The display cycled thru the color spectrum smoothly and created a very cool "ooh shiny" moment that had me transfixed for quite a while.
The thought is this:
Upon first powering on the system, the center square and lines would be softly illuminated in white. After a length of time, the center square would transition to blue/green/red/yellow.... etc. The color would appear to "spill" across and down the white sections of the case, creating another of those "ooh, shiny" moments.
Here are a few concept sketches, and be forewarned, I'm definitely no artist.
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