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Paper-Based 3D Printing, Now in Color and Photo Realistic
3D printers today are capable of creating objects in a variety of materials, from sandstone to plastic to gold. Ireland-based Mcor Technologies has a 3D printer that prints on, wait for it, normal old copy paper.
Their innovation is that the printer glues each sheet of paper together, and only prints the visible part of the model per page.
Mcor has announced a new printer called IRIS that can create photo-realistic objects in full color.
Introducing the Mcor IRIS, the worlds first high resolution full 3D color 3D Printer. The Mcor IRIS joins Mcor’s family of paper 3D printers and the vision of producing high quality, low cost and eco-friendly 3D prints.
Now Mcor is taking their technology to the next level with a full color 3D printer using regular letter paper and specially developed Mcor inks.
The Mcor IRIS produces sharp vibrant prints; printing on to a pure white media produces better color authenticity and reproduction when compared with other color 3D technologies. The Iris prints photo-realistic 3D parts with the resolution you would expect from a high quality 2D color printer
The IRIS will open up a world of opportunity to engineering, education, AEC, GIS and entertainment. “Now full color 3D printing will be accessible to everyone with full 3D color needs”, said Dr MacCormack.
Watch the video below to see the IRIS in action.
Video: Wired Interviews 3D Systems CEO and Aspiring Engineers
Wired design correspondent Mike Senese interviews 3D Systems CEO Abe Reichental and a couple of aspiring engineers about the future of 3D printing. This video was taken at a FIRST robotics competition held at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, CA. 3D Systems brought several dozen of their Cube 3D printers, part of the Cubify system.
Cubify photo by donjd2 used under Creative Commons license.
Phantom Geometry Technique Wins Gehry Prize for 3D Printing Innovation
This is ‘Phantom Geometry’, a masters thesis in architecture by Kyle von Hasseln and Liz von Hasseln, developed in the Robot House at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_Arc). It was awarded the inaugural Gehry Prize at the SCI-Arc commencement ceremony on September 9.
This work is centered on the development of a system for generating material volume from streaming information. The system uses UV light from a modified DLP projector to continuously and selectively cure photo initiated resin within a shallow vat system we developed for the project. The cured part is simultaneously and continually pulled away from the vat, allowing un-cured resin to flood in beneath it to be subsequently cured. The result is the material reification of streaming data that emerges along the motion path of the Staubli robot maneuvering the vat/projector apparatus.
This system of fabrication relies upon native real-time feed-back and feed-forward mechanisms, and is therefore interruptible and corruptible at any time. The streaming data input may be transformed or modified at any time, and such interventions impact emerging downstream geometry.
Watch the video below to see this technique in action.
Top 3D Printing Headlines Last Week: Design, Photo Booth, Students
A roundup of the top news On 3D Printing brought you from November 5 to November 11.
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Incredible 3D Printing Design: Blending Real Objects with Lego
In the video below made for the “Make it real” challenge on Instructables, Greg Petchkovsky demonstrates incredible design skills and vision. He blends real world objects with 3D printing for amazing, seamless results.
In one of his designs, Petchkovsky patches a hole in a stone step with a digitally designed set of Lego blocks.
