I just read this and it is an obvious step. Why settle for 2D prints when 3D prints are happening now.
Next 4D, don't laugh. It will happen.
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I just read this and it is an obvious step. Why settle for 2D prints when 3D prints are happening now.
Next 4D, don't laugh. It will happen.
Google search: Lenticular printing
Lenticular prints are really neat! I've used some of the 3D cameras a number of years ago. There was a 3D LF rig posted about not long ago, and it's also something that can be done with a couple of cameras and mirrors. You get better results with more frames, though. The Nimslo camera used four frames.
I am familiar with Lenticular printing, but this new type of 3d high relief printing is something else. It would require stereo again, no, 3 cameras! Stereo photography keeps coming up, decade after decade, but I never saw much in the old stereo viewers except a headache. Same with 3d movies, the horror.
And by 4d, i mean a moving physical 3d mass that we could observe and touch in real time. Holograms are not that either.
I also remember the formed plastic relief maps that became popular in the 70's?
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Originally Posted by Brian C. Miller
I has already happened in my time-frame. Do you think I was not born tomorrow?Quote:
Originally Posted by Randy Moe
Yes, I remember the plastic maps. The 3D paper maps are similar to that. I remember aerial photographs and topological drawings at the library. Great for a few displays, but that's all, really. Those things take up space. There have been XYZ milling machines since at least the early 1990s, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Randy Moe
At some point there will be something that will form dynamically under program control, and then there will be something faster, yada yada yada.
I want to see what will be done with the wood cellulose fibers that are as strong as steel (Gizmodo link). The applications will be very interesting, especially for on-demand 3D printed products!