Fantasizing about having the skills or time to play with 3d printing / laser engraving. The tech has advanced so far in the last year or so. Lasers can now make color patterns in steel - just based on different wavelengths of laser light. Those are the expensive lasers, but still really cool that you could take a flat metal panel and turn it into a picture with the power of lasers.
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