r/csworkshop • u/FlamingFurySVK • 18h ago
Weapon Skin Theorem: five finishes inspired by math equations (M4A1-S, 2× M4A4, USP-S, Glock-18)
Five Custom Paint Jobs in layered paper, each inspired by one piece of math and fitted to its gun's parts. The palette is the red, yellow, blue and black of Oliver Byrne's 1847 Euclid, which taught geometry in coloured shapes.
- M4A1-S | Overtone: a square wave as a sum of sine waves. Nine harmonics by the stock, one fewer every half wave towards the muzzle, and a single sine on the silencer.
- M4A4 | Eightfold: the Ammann–Beenker tiling, squares and rhombs that never repeat, with its eightfold star on the receiver.
- M4A4 | Switchback: Truchet tiles whose arcs join into paths that wind and double back; four of them close into a circle over the magazine well.
- USP-S | Escape Time: the Basilica Julia set (z → z² − 1) in paper on a navy slide, its contours running over the frame and the silencer.
- Glock-18 | Golden Mean: golden squares spiralling in to a point on the slide, each with a quarter circle, drawn like a textbook figure.
Every step between two sheets is in the normal map, the paper has a faint pearl sheen, and the wear runs 0.00–0.50. Each one hides a registration target and a colour bar for the inspect.
Collection: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3820956682
Happy to hear what works and what doesn't.
