Here's a link to a web site that talks about a cheap 3-D "printer". They use the term "printing" which confuses me a little bit; I guess it "outputs" an actual plastic prototype of your 3-D model for about a dollar per cubic inch - maximum size 5x5x5 inches. So for a mere $125 you could produce a 5x5x5 inch plastic cube! Or maybe a 5 inch diameter sphere! Or maybe something better...
Ellis, I thought of you when I saw this.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/14/desktop-factorys-cheapo-3d-printer-is-coming/
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Tom, thanks for the link. This is UhhmaZing! (Huell Howser exclaims)
5 by by 5 is pretty big.
Then sand it, do a mold and start with the silicone mold and resin casts.
It's very exciting. Not in any immediate budget unless I have a business plan to make money with it.
It would be great to do nice high detaile mudbox type outputs .
I'll book mark the page and wait for a windfall
The funniest are the comments!!
I just realized this will all end badly. After I read a couple of those comments I came to one that said imagine the printer making another printer. Don't these technicians watch movies? That's SCREAMERS man! We don't want that.
It sounds great! So people are just people printers after all; or as one evolutionary biologist put it, "A human being is just DNA's way or making copies of itself."
SCREAMERS - possibly the worst sci-fi movie I've ever seen. Actually it's good in the sense that it's SO bad. Issac Asimov's NIGHTFALL is the WORST sci-fi movie I've ever seen.
I remember when you went to see NiIGHTFALLl. When you gave the review how bad it was at Jostens. Rick probably remembers how much you hated it. I don't think I've ever seen it. I may have to see it now that I know what you think of SCREAMERS. Which is actually a very close adaptation of a pretty good Philip K Dick story. Evil chainsaw head teddy bears. How can you not like that.
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