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Making a Museum in the Age of 3D Digital Models
In 2005, not long after the advent of tabletop 3D printing technology, the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology (UMMP; a research institution) used this approach to generate elements missing from a skeletal mount of the Buesching … -
3-D Printing Digital Fabrication Unleashes Creativity
3-D printing is the closest we’ve come so far to making real-life versions of the “replicators” from Star Trek. 2012 was the breakout year for this technology, as it spread from the home workshops of Makers to new public “hackerspaces” and …
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