right now 3d printing is aboutthirty years old and has seen explosive growth in thelast five to 10 years there are a number of use cases for 3dprinting traditionally for the first kinda twenty years or soits life cycle was really focused on rapid prototypingso it was a tool that designers and product developers used to get physical models in their handsfaster so that they can interact with that see what it look likewhen it felt like what you've seen recently is kinda this this
huge surge in growth and more consumerinitiatives having an artist involvement in the 3d printingworld at this stage is very important because artists are the onesexperimenting with the different possibilities of 3d printing. they are thinking about 3d printing not from an engineering perspective butrather from like a much more open-ended perspective. i've been a professional sculptor basically mywhole life. i first started following 3d printing in theactually in the seventies
when it was just at its inception but thatalways been this magical box than that was gonna letthe shapes come out on the computer for the particularlycomplicated shapes it compresses the fabrication shop as long as you're willing to accept thethe limitations other compresses the fabrication shop down into your desktop so it's it's a prototypinglab its you know a model shop and its essentially brick factory therock that's being printed right now is
one and the kind of quintessential more iconic 3d printed items and thereason being is that there's a set of stairs inside rock thats been printed stairtread by stair tread and there is no other manufacturingtechnology that exists today that would be able to produce that other than 3d printing process butreprinting first date with the modeling process andusually most people spend a lot of time laboriously creating models and avariety of programs
you'd have a model in digital space thenyou have to slice it up into thin sections if you i'm cut us up into little a million littlefleiss's each one each one of those places the 2dobject low like a piece of paper but if you offto extract all those at the right order they'd make a three-dimensional objectand the slicing software goes in and identifies each one of those layersthat needs to be printed all the way up from the bottom to thetop it's essentially a robot that's driving a glue gun around in apath and
that melted material that is laid downis built up layer by layer by layer she can controlwhat object your building by controlling where thatextruder nozzle go and that this is only one type of 3dprinting their many many types on the consumer side tosee a lot of plastics either abs rpl a plastic on the more industrial side you see highand ceramics metals iom again more plastics this time with different chemicalproperty is our strength to weight
ratios and things like that it is completely free of the constraintsabove making most things so for instance if iwas to carve interlocking hands like that you really couldn't get up into those spacesan even if i modeled that to make a mold tomake a bronze casting you you still couldn't get up into thosespaces those are called undercut but because if the the the slicingaspect difficulty undercut simply justdisappears that completely opens up
ability to make any shape you could pickup the audio show where is an important step in the sense that for the first time a establish fineartist saying that the work comp of the printer is itself finish finearts culture as opposed to being an interim step forsome other process you know these are just pieces i'mworking on here check have come off the printer and i thinkthey're they're really wonderful an i would not have been able to makethe shapes in any other way we're looking at theways that we can push
3d printing beyond kinda consumer kirsch replacement parts stuff that you seetypically into more design aesthetic in so at the time it was the world'slargest 3d-printed objects we we call it theworld's first peace agreement that architecture and we knew that project 387 up and theredwood 3 1&2 really taylor the piece from thecomponents the static have ako beer and to
the site and we also were interested increating a space for people that do well in the forest so it was 500 individually 3d printed parts every single one uniqueeverything on different we printed them over the course have twomonths with eight to nine printers running 24hours a day total 10,000 800 hours printing you i kind of a lot that way in order to make this thing any otherway with every single component
being totally unique on everything on every edge with a level of precision tothe tent millimeter would have been in saint we would havehad to use extremely expensive military millingequipment that we went in we want to be able tohave access to let alone i'm i story here is a resident artist idid ask they have stated are facilities including 3d printing andoffers a fabrication facilities my process for modeling 3d object is tocreate my own software which takes datasets converse then intoyou
structures using our co the rather thanmodel something by hand i spend time with the code because theythink the generous the models whether things in san francisco providesis a practical the open data portal and it provided alter the daily parkingmeters crimes that just about anything you can think somereason that data as the basis from which in generating these dataquest this one represents allthe crime locations in san francisco it turns out the crime occurs everywhereso it's a really clumpy like blah ke mas router a romantic ideathat
that you know this comes out just thesealone and some people sort of feel well you knowwhat's happening you're leading a machine make that but for me the the the only rules are sisters gonna sculptures i can makeisn't honest expression and is it the best i can do and thenthat if that's the case then i'll use any tools available 3d printing will get faster it will getcheaper it will become more ubiquitous i just asmore people become aware of it
and these use cases summer which we'rekind of helping to define a really kind of empowering users to identify and somepeople just you know could have come up with ontheir own weermets we learn as much from our users as i think they do from us in the futurei hope that 3d printing will be available for justabout everyone i see this as an alternate know dat making things creatively notjust
replacement parts but thinking aboutstuff that's in your head and your imagination space andnationalizing at physical objects it's a really seductive process to beable to take anything and physical i said and its it's great to be able to do that but wewanna see you know okay what else when austinstill how can
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