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Ok, interesting #CGAPrints / #Thrixels update today. The last few colours - brown, grey and dark green - have come out with noticeably crap quality, probably my printer needs some preventative maintenance after churning out thousands of the same part, but also I should probably build in more tolerance because different filaments are going to act differently.

I'll keep building this stockpile for early pixel art tests, but might revise for time investments in bigger projects. #3DPrinting

Progress on #CGAPrints is slow due to life and other stuff. A full print of 1k #Thrixels is ten hours, basically a whole printer day, and I don't like running it overnight, so if I don't get a plate started in the morning it's not a day this project gets furthered.

I'm up to five packs done out of 16, so in theory I could have the rest knocked out in a week. Realistically it'll take longer, but momentum is slowly building up!

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A better photo of my 16 #CGAPrints filament collection, and my progress so far on turning them into #Thrixels for pixel art.

#CGAPrints Release Candidate 2. Magenta is now Atomic Filament's Perfect Purple, and a slightly lighter shade than in RC1. Cyan is also a little brighter in real life (it's devilishly difficult to take this photo meaningfully, so trust me on this).

I think it's time to line up some filament and print a thousand-odd #Thrixels of each colour, then do some test sprites to see how these colours actually work together!

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#CGAPrints update: Release Candidate 1? I took some time today to test-print some colours that arrived this week, and they seem pretty close. This is the first time I've compared a full batch of #thrixels against colours on a real screen - what do you think?

All 16 colours are different brands and types of PLA, so given access to the complete palette, basically every printer should be capable of making some form or other of CGA pixel art.

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#CGAPrints update: Push Plastic's Dark Teal PLA has entered the chat. Massive thanks to @filamentcolors for helping me get some of this to Australia without spending a fortune on shipping (despite the very best efforts of UPS)!

This stuff is almost exactly the right colour and shade for CGA teal, but is surprisingly matte for a plain PLA colour, doesn't love Bambu's default ironing settings, and jams at the back of my AMS, so this stuff will be exclusively reserved for making #thrixels.