• Stereolithography - AKA 3D Printing
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Random thought: What about printing things like vinyl records? Would that require a lot of material, or is it too much detail?
[QUOTE=Mikaru-Yanagida;30092981]Random thought: What about printing things like vinyl records? Would that require a lot of material, or is it too much detail?[/QUOTE] There's a guy that makes records out of chocolate, I don't see why you couldn't make a record with a high-quality 3d printer
[QUOTE=Mikaru-Yanagida;30092981]Random thought: What about printing things like vinyl records? Would that require a lot of material, or is it too much detail?[/QUOTE] It'd be cheaper to just make a machine to carve the grooves into a blank vinyl disk. I don't see why you'd want to make one from the ground up. Also, if you used a 3d printer to do it, there would probably be a fuck-tonne more crackling than normal because they don't always print particularly smooth.
On the topic of records, can you genuinely construct them from anything? If so, I'm definitely going to create a record out of the components of a record player, then play it in the record player to- wait.
[QUOTE=pogothemunty;29707591][img]http://highwired.co.uk/leon/files/2010/06/Printing.jpg[/img] How would you go about creating a mould for this? It would take weeks to design one. Or it can be 3D printed in just hours. Rapid Prototyping is an industrial name for the process of quickly creating prototypes for a part. From small gears to F1 front wings, prototypes can quickly and relatively cheaply be produced in small quantities (often single units). Stereolithography is a form of rapid prototyping which involved creating a 3D object by building layers, one at a time. For uses in rapid prototyping, it's fast. Models can be imagined, build digitally, and printed within hours, not weeks. [u][b]How Does it Work?[/b][/u] A 3D printer uses .slt (Sterolithography) files which contain spliced 2D images of a 3D object. Like your ordinary paper printer, the printer can only create 2D images, but instead of using paper, it prints the next image onto the previous one, building up over many layers. Many 3D applications can create these .slt files, including 3ds Max and AutoCAD. [b][u]Types of 3D printing[/u][/b] [b]Powder[/b] A layer of powder such as plaster is solidified by a injet style device. A full layer of powder is added, and the desired parts are cured. Once the print is complete, the excess powder can be recycled and used another time. Hollow objects will need to have any powder inside removed. Multiple colours are possible and this is the favourite industry method for small models. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHPKrtmBh_I[/media] [/QUOTE] The first video has the Hand of Sean font's smiley in the title. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?
Someone print the Facepunch Logo.
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