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Virtual reality testing: virtual fashion shoot of 3D object
Today, we’re doing a glamorous virtual fashion fashion shoot of the caveman co-designed object we created yesterday on Shapeways. This is virtual reality testing. This is the future. VR testing is a perfect compliment with 3D printing, because it provides a means to test physical objects before they are even created. In yesterday’s photo post, we created a caveman-designed (or co-designed) object available on Shapeways that we created in homage to the maker movement. (It was a popular monochrome photo from earlier in our photo stream: our blog post on the 11,000 year-old woolly mammoth cave drawing. We converted it into a keychain holder. It truly was caveman design.) So, to do this properly, we need to have a virtual fashion shoot of this object which does not yet exist. (But likely will eventually exist when someone orders it on-demand.) This is futuristic concept of virtual reality testing. Since keychains are hard to model, we temporarily made this into a necklace pedant, hanging from our virtual model’s (not included) glowing yellow pearls (or whatever those things are that we made that don’t fit into the theme of the rest of the outfit.)… Read the restCaveman design keychain: blog image to 18K gold jewelry 3D print!
We’re having fun showing our most popular blog and photo posts can now be turned in real, shop-ready products thanks to the maker movement. As an example of data-driven social media, we repurposed a popular image from our social media feed into a 3D printed jewelry item available that is ready-for-purchase in 18K gold and other materials. (Separately, we also converted this blog photo into an in-game virtual reality object, permitting a virtual reality fashion shoot.) This caveman design keychain was co-designed and generated in part by an 11,000-year old caveman illustration of a woolly-mammoth in France. (You can read our original blog article with illustration here. Also, check out a cool data-driven social media video we created featuring some of these items, as well as more serious pop-scientific article on potentially de-extincting the woolly mammoth for interstellar space travel someday.) You can use the Shapeways widget below to manipulate the 3D object and see it from a variety of viewpoints (as well as buy the physical object in a wide-variety of materials, from the extremely inexpensive to the very expensive): So we can say that this keychain was truly co-designed by a French Cro-magnon caveman living 11,000 years ago.… Read the restMars: 3D printing raw material locations?
This 2001 view of mars seen by the Nasa Hubble space telescope might provide some clues as to locations where the raw materials for 3D printing might come from. Continuing on our red planet theme from the last few days, this is a 2001 photo of Mars from the Hubble space telescope.Mars has about 0.5 the diameter of Earth, or a quarter of the surface area. (AKA available real estate for you speculators. 🙂 ) Mars, the God of War, is indeed mostly made of iron as the ancient alchemists thought, or specifically iron(II) oxide, aka rust. (Mars was thought to be the God of War because of its blood color. Iron, of course, was the metal of weapons and war, and rust also resembled blood.) Critically, for expeditions, the poles contain significant amounts of water. The southern white polar ice cap, if melted, would cover the surface 11m in water.… Read the restSelf-replicating 3D printer: von Neumann machines on Mars?
Is this self-replicating 3D printer a von Neumann machine that will someday go to Mars? Yesterday, we experimented with our idea of Instagram to 3D printed jewelry for the more popular monochrome photos in our feed. The technology worked at some level (we have jewelry on Shapeways now, based on a previous IG photo post). But it took too long and too many artistic decisions to get it there. It wasn’t quite blinking lights automatic the way our earlier virtual fashion shoot could be. So this is a good time to step back and explain what 3D printing is or can become, for those we are less familiar with it. This is Mandel, a version of RepRap. RepRap is an open source hardware project to build a fully self-replicating 3D printer. That’s right, a 3D printer that can print a copy of itself. We’ve discussed the concept of self-replicating machines previously in posts on cellular automata.… Read the restRecent Comments
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