corian/lithophane

I've been playing with Corain the last few days. We're using this in the Architecture course and the students will be using it to construct their third artifact for the semester. It mills beautifully and can be cut like butter, but it is durable and strong. I thought it would be cool to make a texture and  lithophane-like test. The textured piece was made by creating a surface from an image of the chemical structure of aluminum and the lithophane was created by using an image of Halle Berry. The lithophane surface is quite shallow, but when backlit, the surface comes to life.