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3D-Printed Room Looks Like Gaudí On Steroids, Could Signal New Age Of Architecture
The International Science Times ^ | December 30, 2013 | Ben Wolford

Posted on 12/30/2013 4:48:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 12/30/2013 4:48:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: DUMBGRUNT

ping


2 posted on 12/30/2013 4:52:41 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Too many sharp edges for a real room. Someone could bump into the walls and get hurt.

Lots of detail on the printing, though.


3 posted on 12/30/2013 4:53:16 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

You have to dust it with a gas power leaf blower


4 posted on 12/30/2013 4:55:57 PM PST by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; AFPhys; AD from SpringBay; ADemocratNoMore; aimhigh; AnalogReigns; archy; ...

5 posted on 12/30/2013 4:57:54 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

You would never want to do LSD around that thing,
you’d melt.


6 posted on 12/30/2013 4:57:59 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That known as Roccoco-Baroque Deluxe


7 posted on 12/30/2013 5:05:39 PM PST by lee martell
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To: null and void

They stole the robot from my av program.


8 posted on 12/30/2013 5:10:32 PM PST by GraceG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Real concrete printing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZL0A0IMFVY


9 posted on 12/30/2013 5:13:34 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Consider that 3-D printing is in its infancy. Eventually, we will be able to print out masterpieces that are over a billion times more artistic than what Michelangelo or Vincent Van Gogh ever put out.


10 posted on 12/30/2013 5:20:58 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Meh. Call me when it can print out folded socks and an ironed shirt.


11 posted on 12/30/2013 5:31:09 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe Gaudi, but I think it has an H.R. Giger feel to it.


12 posted on 12/30/2013 5:32:55 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: SamAdams76

This guy said it pretty well.
“They didn’t expect that 3D-printed houses would start rolling off the presses any time soon. But one architectural history professor called it “a peek over the technological horizon.”


13 posted on 12/30/2013 5:34:51 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (This is not just stupid, we're talking Democrat stupid here.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As a fan of Gaudi, this could extend his style. Imagine a color / reflectivity scheme applied to something this detailed.


14 posted on 12/30/2013 5:40:00 PM PST by cicero2k
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To: mountn man

This is trivial!
To truly advance life as we know it; they need to employ all the obamaphone users pecking away on the keypads.

No thoughtful input is required! Just keep pecking away.Butt calls OK too!

As everyone knows this will produce an infinite amount of great works.Given sufficient time.

It may take some work to sift out the usable bits. When the obamacare programming team has that thing ready they could pivot on to this most necessary project.


15 posted on 12/30/2013 5:57:34 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, it’s gaudy alright.


16 posted on 12/30/2013 6:00:03 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
""Digital Grotesque"

"Grotesque" is definitely the right word. It may be a "3D printing" tour-de-force, but IMO is just plain ugly.

17 posted on 12/30/2013 6:10:57 PM PST by Wonder Warthog (Newly fledged NRA Life Member (after many years as an "annual renewal" sort))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great post!
The question of “can it be done?” having long since been answered, the question “why do it?” surfaces.
IMHO the facility of the technology making form making dependent only on the whim of the designer or the unfolding of an algorithm produces the same emptiness experienced in virtual space.
For some real fun with neo-gaudi high techno-gothic, look at the stuff Mark West is doing at University of Manitoba:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cast_building/index.html
In this case, the form can only be anticipated, as the elasticity of the fabric form work and the cure time of the concrete conspire in the design as much as the architects do.


18 posted on 12/30/2013 8:05:14 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

10 years from now, God willing, we’ll be looking back and laughing at the primitiveness of all this, like we do now at Pong or the Commodore computers or record players in cars.


19 posted on 12/30/2013 8:07:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think you’re right. Probably by up scaling the printer like this:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QxqROe8tevo


20 posted on 12/30/2013 8:20:35 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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