awesome, how much for that printer
?
I believe it was in the region of £25000 (UK) but I wasn't directly involved with the purchase so I didn't see the quotes or invoices.
>> [miner49er] Could these be sprayed another colour?
Some of our students have used enamal paints on their models (like those used for plastic model kits
http://www.airfix.com/humbrol-paints-and-accessories/ ). I'm not sure the Mandelbulb surface would be ideal for spraying, but you could certainly use a brush - and a lot of patience :-)
>> [Snakehand] With such steep material costs, wouldn't it be better to hollow out the inside
That's kind-of what I did. I wrote the conversion software to create a hollow object with walls and a hole for the unused material to escape. Internally, the volume looks like lots of disorganised steps. In fact, this was the main challenge... to create an object with walls thick enough to physically handle, while maximising the hollow to keep costs down and at the same time, trying to minimise the polygon count so the whole thing could fit in the computer's memory for printing purposes.
What you don't see in the photo is that I got the balancing act slightly wrong on the first print because the top popped off the mandelbulb when I removed it from the printer.
http://vr3.tees.ac.uk/gary/mandelbulb/DSCF0653.JPGGary.
January 12, 2010, 01:30:51 PM
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