Most durable photograph recording medium : Photosensitive Glass

[jtk]

https://fractureme.com/

 

[jsmoove]

@Mustafa Umut Sarac I only just saw you had already posted about Gaffer photosensitive glass, whoops! By the way, is this the only photosensitive glass out there today (other than foturan)?
They come in "ruby" rods 16in long and 30mm wide apparently. http://www.gafferglassusa.com/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=g-080&product_id=100
@jtk Neat, seems like a reasonable cost too, thanks for sharing!
My end goal is to have an image as part of a lens, like a stanhope. So maybe theyd be able to do something custom, otherwise itd be great for creating reticles depending on their resolution they are printing at

 

[jtk]

@Mustafa Umut Sarac I only just saw you had already posted about Gaffer photosensitive glass, whoops! By the way, is this the only photosensitive glass out there today (other than foturan)?
They come in "ruby" rods 16in long and 30mm wide apparently. http://www.gafferglassusa.com/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=g-080&product_id=100
@jtk Neat, seems like a reasonable cost too, thanks for sharing!
My end goal is to have an image as part of a lens, like a stanhope. So maybe theyd be able to do something custom, otherwise itd be great for creating reticles depending on their resolution they are printing at

Yes , not the same thing. As well, inkjet printing on 1/8" aluminum substrate is fairly affordable...I've seen 4'X8'...is as affordable as something well-framed and doesn't pretend to last forever but is probably "archival" by any standard...is as beautiful as any paper... Carr Imaging, for example.

 

[jsmoove]

Perhaps it can be done with carbon transfer printing, just we adding photochromic ink in the gelatin instead carbon.

That sounds like an interesting idea...could you have photochromic ink within a glass itself?
Im just wondering if there would be a way to expose an image directly into glass, but then make sure that it is no longer continually affected by UV rays from the sun/causing it to go dark.
So it fixes somehow.
Or the opposite, where the image only shows up under sunlight would probably work better. But I don't know how you'd make a latent image within glass with photochromics

 

[jsmoove]

A phd thesis on gaffer photosensitive ruby:
https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/1840

She crushes the glass for glass "pate de verre". I imagine a powder form of the photosensitive ruby could be mixed into a binder and coated on cold.
From gaffer: "In theory, it can be crushed and applied cold/then exposed and brought to the proper temperatures for exposure."

 

[jsmoove]

+ Follow up on the ceramic forum: https://community.ceramicartsdaily.org/topic/25926-making-a-photosensitive-powder/