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jadecat9 pointed me to and am very pleased with the resultant Canopic Jar Coffee Cup Lids. |
Canopic Coffee Lids! These started with photos of a set of amulets of the four sons of Horus in the collection of the British Museum. I ran a trace program on the bitmaps to create vector images, then did (by hand) an anamorphic transformation to print them onto a conical section that could be cut out and taped together into a piece that would fit (exactly; I got some lids and used calibers to measure the necessary diameters) right onto the Solo lids made to fit onto Starbucks coffee cups (both the tall and the grande/venti sizes). I'm inordinately pleased at the results. For reference, the four sons are from left to right: Qebehsenuef (falcon), Hapy (baboon), Duamutef (jackal) and Imsety (human). The versions going to CC24 are printed with our good Canon 9900 printer on photo paper; the large test version of Imsety (right hand, rear row) is from that printer and even in this snapshot you can see that the colors are more intense. |
I also drew a clean copy of the "Tutbucks" cartouche logo so I can use it to lay out the real decoration on the cartouche. I'll admit to being tempted to print part of it out as an iron-on transfer, since most food-service places will not shell out bucks to bead employee uniforms. :-)
PS If you'd like to make your own set of lids, I turned my projections into a PDF file available at http://www.twistedimage.com/productions/mummy/canopic_coffee_lids.pdf. I just ask that you refrain from using them until after CC24, and that you give credit where credit is due!