3D Printer Art Un-Make-able Elsewhere
Posted Wednesday, May 17th, 2006, at 10:41 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
Tags: art, Technology
Check out the 3D geometric art of Bathseba Grossman in a cool video over at Make magazine’s blog. Bathseba uses 3D printing techniques to create geometric sculptures that apparently can’t be produced by any other means. Very nice stuff, too. And I wonder whether that holds implications for more structural creations; are there more utilitarian things that 3D printers can create that can be created nowhere else?
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Ms. Grossman is a wonderful person. She even graciously shared some of her process information with me a few years back (she’s since moved on to newer processes, though I don’t believe she’s using SLM or EBM yet - understandable based on my correspondence with one machine manufacturer).
To answer your question, the answer is “Yes”. There are a number of utilitarian objects being fabbed and used. One nice example is the air-ducting for helicopters. Sikorsky and others now use some fabbed ducting components that can not be manufactured using traditional processes.
I’m waiting for aircraft structural components that look like bird bones whose cross-sections are both beautiful and amazingly efficient. Those could only be “grown”.