3D People. Shapeways...
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- slinky
thought i would share this... looks pretty cool... i'd love to see what some of you 3D designers get done.
http://mashable.com/2008/07/22/s…
- harlequino0
Ten years ago I tried to get my dad, who works for one of the largest paper manufacturers in the world, interested in starting up a business to create 3D fabricators that would work like printers. Sigh...he just didn't get it.
- Redmond0
I'd like a cheap way to make vynil casts... Sculpting with your own hands is easy and kind of still more convenient than a computer imo.
- Redmond0
I mean hollow vynil casts so you can puncture stuff into it instead of glue.
- dog_opus0
Very cool stuff. I saw something similar in Wired not too long ago. The guy they interviewed made a prototype for his fiancée's wedding ring.
- Brokenboi0
Few months back our firm was commissioned to model a 3d model of a sunshine lotion bottle which went to some sort of design competition. Anyway, the bottle ended up as 3D print. Dunno much about the hardware/software used to build the actual sculpture. The thing was that the mesh of the virtual model had to be subdivided up to tens of millions of polygons to enable the printer to build a smooth surface. Although, when zoomed to a very close distance, you could actually see the polygons in the sculpture. Wonder why they didn't accept CAD or NURBS...
- lowimpakt0
i used to work in a product development R&D lab/place/thing.
there was a wide range of rapid prototyping machines, SLA (Stereolithography), Thermojet, Object Printing and SLM, etc. etc.
the best ones were the medical researchers that would take CT scans of patients that need implants and then make implants that are exact to the patient.....