You should do a time-lapse of something being printed. That would be amazing.
Lord_Plecostomus wrote:You drop the dice the top, a series of baffles roll the dice randomly and they collect neatly in a tray. No more dice under the table, stuck in cleavage, flying across the room never to be seen again or landing in the snacks. I hate when that happens!
That's a great idea. You could also print the many-sided dice. Which brings up another question: What about products that require stamping or painting?
3D printed dice would be troublesome for a variety of reasons though I'm sure I could make some large novelty dice....
I'm feeling quite a bit better than I was earlier, so I'll post some pictures tomorrow.
I was showing RJ my collection of failed prints, and explaining to him how I can recycle most of them. I am working on a method to turn soda bottles (PET resin) into usable material for printing. It's a bit more complicated than it seems at first glance. More on that tomorrow too...
Lord_Plecostomus wrote:I'm feeling quite a bit better than I was earlier, so I'll post some pictures tomorrow.
I'm glad you're feeling better.
I was showing RJ my collection of failed prints, and explaining to him how I can recycle most of them. I am working on a method to turn soda bottles (PET resin) into usable material for printing. It's a bit more complicated than it seems at first glance. More on that tomorrow too...
That's a cool idea. Not only is it recycling, but it probably makes them worth a lot more than a 5-cent deposit.
Lord_Plecostomus wrote:Here is a model of one that I found while looking for something else overnight...
That's pretty sweet. Mandelbrot statuary is probably very marketable. What's the name of that place that sells nerdy merchandise, like the 2001 Monolith action figure? Geek-something. You could probably sell them Mandelbrot stuff.
I'm thinking translucent material with a light behind it, might make a nice desk display. I'm not an artsy kind of guy I just handle the technical side of things.
I opened the file in my software, and there are significant problems with it.
Whoever rendered it, rendered certain sections too thin for the software to slice. Which means the curls and tails won't print at all.
You'd end up with a jagged ameoba-shaped lump of plastic. Frankly you can do that yourself by melting Lego in your waffle-iron.
I'll send a message to the author and see if we can't redesign it. Depends on the skill of the author and his software. I'm not up to the challenge -- I don't have the right kind of software for that kind of manipulation.
Thank you very much. I don't want you to go to too much trouble, though. It may just be impossible to 3D print a Mandelbrot, the way all those little dendrites taper off into nothingness.....
Well the way he modeled it he made the thin sections way too thin, and it lost a lot of detail.
You could increase the size of it and that would make the thinner parts thick enough to print.
Again, I don't do that sort of thing I don't have the ability to make those kinds of manipulations... but this shows that the technology does have limits. A lot of the focus is on all the amazing things it can do, but we haven't really pushed the limits of what we have already. This problem I am describing right now is one of the "classic blunders" in modeling-to-print however... He should have known better.
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