Toucan getting new beak made for him in Blender.
Some total assholes chopped off a toucan’s beak. With help of 3D printing and Blender, he’s getting a new one.
Warning: this article contains some upsetting pictures.
Bryce Jones writes:This is an awesome story about a toucan bird named Grecia who had hes beak cut off by unidentified assailants. He is now being prepared to get a new 3D printed beak made for him in Blender as you’ll see in the article. It’s not that long and a great read.
Intresting and sad article with an upside for the toucan,
Its just amazing that we can help this little fella and give him a new beak,
More amazing is the SAD fact that some dick head did this to one of natures creatures.
Maybe hopefully with a twist of Karma the same will happen to the assholes whom did this hey ?
Cheers
Mark
Such a juxtaposition between terrible human beings in this world and kind human beings in this world.
This is really bittersweet. It’s great that the toucan can be restored, and that Blender can help. It’s also sad that it was necessary to do it at all.
This is nothing more than using cruelty for entertainment. The person or persons who did this may be beyond caring, and may even get a kick out of people’s disgust for their behavior, but it still needs to be said: this is reprehensible. Whoever did this did it consciously, deliberately, and with considerable planning.
There is no excuse for this. None.
Exactly my thoughts.
The morons who did this should get each and every single body part chopped off slowly and painfully as well…
Viva Costa Rica, y todos los Blender Heads in nuestro pais!
What a touching history! I Wish all the best for Grecia, the Toucan.
Oh dude!
I’m praying for the prosthetics to work as intended! The crew looks so compromised and really concerned. :_)
wow I hope it works out. Keep us posted!
3D Printing is gonna deeply revolutionize many things. Spare parts for practically anything!. Who hasn’t being forced to throw valuable things just because a stupid plastic piece breaks letting it beyond repair. Is the planned obsolescence killer.
3D printing overall has its usefulness, but it’ll need to better materials eventually, I would say.
Plastics, resins, metals and other current 3D-printing materials are such materials of limited durability, impractical costs, or environmental concerns.
Few things see this sort of life-changing practical use in 3D printing, such as building a beak for this poor bird, simply because the printing material has its limits.
I’m glad the materials were enough for this task, but I think we’ve only just begun to see the potential with 3D printing–that is, if we continue expanding its range.
I think once we arrive at a “carbon-fiber printing,” then we’d REALLY see some truly revolutionary potential there. Maybe not a replacement for other materials, but certainly a leader.
Cheaper, stronger, durable, natural–carbon would theoretically become the new plastic, once it’s malleable use become explored some more. And then there’d REALLY be no stopping 3D printing’s use.
we can’t print carbon-fiber, it’s a fabric
Yep e5dy, you are right. But I guess Lockett also knows that carbon fiber cannot be printed, it was just an exercise of imagination! It can not, but imagine if it could! Wouldn’t it be great? :)
Anyway, I consider the ideia of using fiber carbon very clever!
What if the 3D print is made with a small offset, to work as a support/mold for carbon fiber? ;)