Have you all heard about 3-D printers before???

[BERIGAN]

Perhaps everyone else has, but man, this is freakin' incomprehensible to my brain! Amazing!

I just got this in a an email today, but Saw Jay Leno has something similar to this, on a My Classic car a week or so ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw&feature=player_embedded

[Stefan Wood]

Yeah, that's pretty amazing!

[Man with the Golden Arm]

we have a couple SLAs at the place I work. about the size of a refrigerator and not quite the same method as the video - no powder bath, just the item being layered in space. i feel the same amazement when i walk by and peek in the window and see a freeking winnie the pooh magically appearing in the void. sending a file to the orient to get a real mold started rather than doing a two or four up laborious sculpt by hand is the norm.

there are already personal ones coming out for a couple grand (no doubt the cost will lower once the porn industry gets into it) and a few local print houses are offering this to ad agencies and architects for quick presentation models. but the fact that we could just start making shit "as needed" is very cool!

i was mystified as a kid at the mold a rama machines they had at the NY World's Fair and Cleveland Zoo - sure wish i still had that collection.

Edited July 8, 2011 by Man with the Golden Arm

[BERIGAN]

we have a couple SLAs at the place I work. about the size of a refrigerator and not quite the same method as the video - no powder bath, just the item being layered in space. i feel the same amazement when i walk by and peek in the window and see a freeking winnie the pooh magically appearing in the void. sending a file to the orient to get a real mold started rather than doing a two or four up laborious sculpt by hand is the norm.

there are already personal ones coming out for a couple grand (no doubt the cost will lower once the porn industry gets into it) and a few local print houses are offering this to ad agencies and architects for quick presentation models. but the fact that we could just start making shit "as needed" is very cool!

i was mystified as a kid at the mold a rama machines they had at the NY World's Fair and Cleveland Zoo - sure wish i still had that collection.

I remember those! There was one at the St. Louis Zoo, too. (A zoo thing?) Trying to think did they ever have these at Disney Land, or Knotts Berry Farm perhaps???

[Dave Garrett]

I remember those! There was one at the St. Louis Zoo, too. (A zoo thing?) Trying to think did they ever have these at Disney Land, or Knotts Berry Farm perhaps???

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