Spent some more time tinkering with plugins on my OctoPrint environment for the 3d Printer, and ended up loading a new plugin or two. In particular, I added one called OctoLapse, which provides a much more consistent and stable timelapse for the printing. Basically it enforces a standard location for each snapshot, and allows a snapshot to be taken once for every layer. A small tweak to the overall process, but the result is pretty interesting. Once the video is processed, the result is what appears to be the constructed part “growing” out of the bed, rather than being printed. It is actually a lot more engaging as well.
Of course, this made me also tweak the location of the camera (too much glare), but that was a simple change.
