i love this technique. i think that this is a very easy process to get a hold on as long as you know the tools a little bit. i am testing to see how much of the sky should be in the image. with a little more practice i think it will be renamed the shawn technique.
this project was a little troubling with the use of laser cutting. i found that it was easier to reverse construct this luminaire by drawinging it in 2d first then constructing it into a 3d image.