{"id":289,"date":"2014-10-28T21:07:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion360.wpengine.com\/todays-two-minute-tip-self-illuminating-materials-to-light-up-halloween\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:37:51","slug":"todays-two-minute-tip-self-illuminating-materials-to-light-up-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/todays-two-minute-tip-self-illuminating-materials-to-light-up-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s two minute tip &#8211; Self Illuminating materials to light up Halloween!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I recently learned\u00a0and have been excited about it and using quite often. It a good thing that Halloween and Diwali were around the corner, so I could really put this new knowledge of self illuminating materials into good practice!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you have not taken part on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.autodesk.com\/t5\/post-your-tips-and-tutorials\/design-your-own-halloween-pumpkin-in-fusion-360\/m-p\/5357119\/highlight\/true#M310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Halloween Pumpkin contest<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0yet, this tip will certainly give your designs an edge!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some snapshots of what I did with my superpowers once I realized I had them! <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"smileywink\" class=\"emoticon emoticon-smileywink\" title=\"Smiley Wink\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/i\/smilies\/16x16_smiley-wink.gif\" alt=\"Smiley Wink\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Diwali2.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/136257i7BC431DB675F81EC\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"Diwali2.png\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy Diwali! \u00a0(For those not familiar with the Indian festival of Diwali, more information <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diwali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Light rendering.png\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/136259iDF38692B02D51805\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" alt=\"Light rendering.png\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Concept design for a light fxture&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"Pumpkin_small.png\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/136243iF72A03493643ED09\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"Pumpkin_small.png\" \/><\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P><IMG border=\"0\" alt=\"Pumpkin rendering.png\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/autodesk.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/136245i62481D292ABEE112\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" title=\"Pumpkin rendering.png\" \/><\/P><P>Here&#8217;s a quick tip on creating self illuminating materials in Fusion like lights for lamps, or spooky Halloween pumpkins!<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fusion","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Today&#039;s two minute tip - Self Illuminating materials to light up Halloween! 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