David Kirkpatrick has been doing a lot of blogging about the SculptCAD Rapid Artists Project. His resent post is about a large scale 3D printer in Italy.
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ABOUT SCRA
- SculptCAD Rapid Artists
- Dallas, Texas, United States
- The SCRA project has already caused heated discussions about how much technology an artist can use before the artwork losses its humanity and becomes just a mechanized industrial product. Where is the line drawn that separates the hand of the artist from the automated program? The 12 artists selected for the SCRA project represent a wide range of mediums and genres: from painting to sculpture, from realism to abstract. All of the artists have well established styles that strongly reflect the hand of the artist. Before this project began, most of the artists had no previous experience with 3D computer modeling or rapid prototyping. Over a 3 month crash coarse, the artists learned how to manipulate this new visual language, and use it to create sculptures that represent their personal creative outlook.
Improvements in technology for rapid prototyping systems has today allowed a significant range of companies (not just CAD designers) to use different materials (often low cost) instead of plastic or metals. Rapid Protoype useage is in the future getting higher quality and better value for money.
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