Posts Tagged ‘printing 3d’

25 Nov 2007

3D Printing

Interesting piece in Wired about 3D printers – machines which spew out actual objects according to a set of data.

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These 3D printers are currently enormously expensive ($20,000+) and can only produce objects of a certain size and type. The 3D file sizes are also huge – many gigabytes – but it’s interesting that increasingly everything essentially can be represented by data.

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