Cheap careless mass produced screen printing crap. I miss the days when objects in our day-to-day lives have thought and Care put into them. I guess that's incompatible with low cost though
This would be so damn hard to line up. Semi-spherical shape with a graphic on it? No way are you getting that perfect. A smartly designed product would account for that misalignment by simply stopping the graphic before they overlap and leaving a gap.
It's not that hard, it's printed with a huge soft industrial tiddy. You just have to line it up on the flat stamp thingy, which should be easy, probably.
Ceramics are never super tight in tolerance, and a tiddy is a soft, deformable shape that will never deform exactly the same every time, plus it needs to be moved and compressed around the part. You get any of those off by even a little and you get misalignment.
It’s actually kind of beautiful because it makes me think of breaking the grid of space to do some kind of faster-than-light travel.
This could be a ripping seam in the fabric of spacetime at the edge of an Alcubierre warp bubble.
Like a “behind the veil” opportunity appearing as a rent in the backdrop of reality, that you could step through. A secret cave entrance opening in a Zelda game. That feeling.