Posted on 09/06/2005 12:24:45 PM PDT by misterrob
Skin.....?
Now that is something!
"These technologies have been in use within the rapid prototyping industry for many years now, and I predict it will make the transition to a consumer technology."
Saw some techs reproducing a 5000 year old spearhead the other night. They took some kind of X-ray of the spearhead (it was imbedded in a buffalo skull) fed it into the computer and the machine manufactured a spearhead out of sprayed plastic a stroke at a time. Amazing.
totally!
Wait, is it good to be a nerd now?
YO! Sounds like a Ballistic Printer; I believe it's so named because it actually shoots out the plastic necessary to build the object. The other major RP technology that I'm aware of is Stereo Lithography, which bounces a laser beam off a spinning disc and into a vat of liquid material. So cool.
MM
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