Applications
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| Paleontology | "The Smithsonian’s 3D Printed Fossil Whales |
Fossil Whales from Chile were 3D printed by the Smithsonian Institution, from Engineering.com |
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| Museums | "3D scanning with the Smithsonian's laser cowboys" |
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| Animals, Medical | “3D-printed foot brings back duck's waddle” |
https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57592043/3d-printed-foot-brings-back-ducks-waddle/ |
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| Animals, Medical | “3D-printed foot brings back duck's waddle” |
https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57592043/3d-printed-foot-brings-back-ducks-waddle/ |
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| Food | 3D chocolate |
Food meets art (or, art meets food) 3D chocolate by UK company Choc Edge Ltd. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8FUq_2IU2Uo |
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| Art | M.C. Escher turned 3D |
Making 3D objects of M.C. Escher’s amazing 2D drawings of seemingly impossible 3D concepts (personally, I think they lose their magic when printed in 3D) |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cmr4HqjSSw4 |
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| Art | Shane Hope's artiistic creations |
Shane Hope makes 3D printed collages; his recent New York exhibition called “Nano-Nonobjective-Oriented Ontographs and Qubit-Built Quilts” |
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| Paleontology | "Dinosaur Skeleton from Photos" |
https://www.instructables.com/id/Dinosaur-skeleton-from-photos/ |
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| Photography | 3D printing of a photograph |
Not sure if its Photography?, but its really cool |
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| The Future | Nasa to send 3D printer into space |
In 2014 Nasa is sending a 3D printer to the International Space Station |
https://www.madeinspace.us/made-in-space-and-nasa-to-send-first-3d-printer-into-space |