Is it the future yet? - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Oct 6, 2009
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Private Sanjeev,
Thomas Amberg,
NaHi,
OCoG of FF, Jimminy,
Jemm,
Paul Buchheit,
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very nice. Did you print it?
- Rachel Lea Fox
Based on the different colors, I'm going to guess that each piece was printed separately. I can't wait until we can print the whole thing in one pass!
- Gabe
Z-Corp printers can easily make objects like that in a single pass -- they basically have inkjet heads depositing colored glue onto layers of powder, and like ordinary inkjet heads they can print in full color. I don't expect the moving parts work very well, though.
- ⓞnor
It wasn't me, but a friend of mine who's developing the printer. The car was from a test run, and I'm told they can turn out prettier if you care about the outcome, rather than about testing the printer. I think it was in one pass. Indeed, it is Z-Corp. And no, the parts don't move.
- Seth
They can look slightly prettier, and you can soak them in epoxy, but they never *quite* shed that whole "bunch of powder glued together" look. If you've ever seen the Toy Story zoetrope (on display at Disney currently) -- http://www.flickr.com/photos... -- those figures are all made with a Z-Corp printer, and look about as nice as you can possibly make them look.
- ⓞnor
Oh, my comment was predicated on the assumption that the thing worked.
- Gabe
"that whole "bunch of powder glued together" look." - sounds like a problem for a surface coat of primer or thinned modelling putty. I suppose that doesn't exactly scale.
- Andrew C (✔)
A similar model was on the cover of The Economist's technology quarterly - http://www.economist.com/images... (see also http://www.economist.com/science... )
- Thomas Amberg
