Hello Geekhack!
Starting around the beginning of the pandemic I have involved myself with a variety of keyboard related projects. Today I want to present the Penrose Deskmat, an eye-catching, historic, mathematical pattern. Full album (https://imgur.com/a/TockpQ0). If you're interested could you please fill out the IC form here: Form Link (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbpYjfNfjW1zlEgZgBZ1sC6dvWlzJbn3Jar_0kgtxkflMJgA/viewform?usp=sf_link)
(https://i.imgur.com/zfEYI6v.jpg)
Purple on Pink
(https://i.imgur.com/P0uZxGt.png)
Black on White
(https://i.imgur.com/HzpGl9C.jpg)
Green on Green
(https://i.imgur.com/WgJb1rn.png)
White on Black
Date
TBA
Backstory
One of the first youtubers I ever subscribed to was Veritasium. After watching his latest video about the Infinite Patterns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sCx-wBs34&t=1s&ab_channel=Veritasium), I was inspired to make this beautiful historic pattern into a deskmat. The Penrose Tiling is an exmaple of aperiodic tiling, you can read more about it on the Wikipedia page here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling). Part of the reason the pattern is aesthetically pleasing is that it follows the golden ratio of 1.618 and follows a 5 fold symmetry pattern. I went with simple color ways to help match neutral sets and accommodate as many combinations as possible.
Specifications
900x400x4mm
Stitched Edging
Rubber non-slip bottom
Vendors
TBA
Timeline
TBA
Updates
Reddit IC (r/mm) (http://INSERT HERE) | Reddit IC (r/mk) (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/j6bziy/ic_the_penrose_deskmat_collection) | Discord Server (Updates) (https://discord.gg/GrKpGMW)
Special thanks to the Keycap Designer Discord (https://discord.gg/UdHmSZy) for helping me and giving me feedback.
Thanks to Hand Engineering for providing models for Haus65. Thanks to Kumori & S3LQ for all of their help!