Is it rendered? Is it real? Read on ;-)
David Hirmes writes:
I've created a series of sculptures called Boolean Buddhas by taking advantage of Blender's recently improved boolean functions and fabricated using a Makerbot 3D printer.
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Thai souvenirs industry has to change its pants right now :D
And I have to do the same, but that because it is pretty and awesome.
Just a question. how many 3d prints can you make with an average spool. I've been looking into this 3d printing as well. Great job btw.
It really depends on the size and density of the print. Luckily both of these settings are trivially easy to change. For reference though, one 1 kg spool of plastic can be used to print ~392 average size chess pieces with 20% infill (the measure of how dense the object is, 20% is a default value for makerbots), which turns out to be quite a big bag of chess pieces: http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/02/24/a-matter-of-scales-how-much-can-you-print-with-a-single-1kg-spool/
Consequently, that's about 2 weeks of nearly continuous printing on a makerbot replicator. Hope that helps!
Awesome idea :D
Very nice experiment!
At first i thought "WOW! what a nice render" :D
That doesn't even look close to realistic. Try again later.
Hahahahaha.