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3D Printing in Stone, or Copy a Sculpture in Rock
An anonymous reader writes "With all this design
your own parts and electronics
talk lately here on /., what about creating your own stone sculpture on
a PC or Copying a Stone Sculpture? You can do that with an outfit
called Studio Roc in CA. The New York Times has an
interesting article on this marriage of CAD, laser scanning, and rocks. 'Using a huge
Italian-made Omag Mill5 five-axis milling machine equipped with a
scanner and 30 interchangeable diamond-tipped bits and blades, the
Mill5 can record nearly any object in minutes and carve a duplicate in
any stone in a few hours.'"
...my own Venus De Milo RealDoll(tm)?
now you can have your head scanned and have a really scare tombstone !!! :)
I wonder if that machine could make a life-sized sculputure of myself? Where shall I put it?
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Which she probably already is...
what about creating your own stone sculpture? ...'Using a huge Italian-made Omag Mill5 five-axis milling machine
Sounds great! I'm supposing Staples will have the huge Italian-made Omag Mill5 five-axis milling machine....
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I wonder how long it's going to be before someone figures out how to use this wonderful new technology for smut?
Oh great, get ready for a host of law-suits as Da Vinci comes back from the dead to sew 'Sculpture Pirates' copying ancient IP.
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It seems so useless, but yet I am compelled to get one. Such is the /. way
Just like people are writing software that compose their own music, this could potentially give software the ability to create its own "artistic" sculptures... cool!
;o)
PS. Han Solo hates the idea of a full size sculpture of himself.
The Stone Masson Association of America will not stand for such a thing. They will soon lobby for a DMCA-like legislation to outlaw progress like this.
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How much wood would a stone mill mill if a stone mill could mill wood?
John
Does anyone know why they use a diamond tipped cutter instead of a laser cutter?
Probably because the frickin' sharks demanded better benefits.
Friday, July 23, 4004
NEW YORK (AP) - A new organization has been created to promote the copying and redistribution of stone sculptures. Calling itself the Free Sculpture Foundation, or FSF, the group aims to "free" works of art which until now have been "hoarded" by stone copyrighters.
"How can you copyright a piece of rock?? It's the earth, man!" Hippie and founder Richard Stoneman said he got his idea from a recent Slashdot post, "3D Printing in Stone, or Copy a Sculpture in Rock". Great works such as those by Michelangelo will be among his first projects.
Industry groups are not impressed. Chiseled Sales, Inc. spokeswoman Hillary Rocken announced the formation of a trade group opposed to Mr. Stoneman's band of fredom fighters. The Rock Is Available Association, or RIAA is set to lobby government officials to crack down on these "rock robbers". "The talented sculpturers we represent are losing hard earned profits by these thieves. Stone may come from the earth, but that shouldn't stop us from selling it," Rocken said in a prepared statement.
The debate is not likely to go away any time soon. Shortly after the formation of the FSF, a new rival group was formed, calling itself the Open Stone movement. President Erock S Raymond called for a meeting of the minds between business and stone consumers, noting the benefits of opening up the hardware "blueprints" to great works of art.
Does this mean statues will now come equipped with DRM? If this machine can make Venus de Milo knockoffs with arbitrary precision, it can save the data it uses to carve. Then put that datafile on a P2P, and anyone with a statue burner will be able to make bootleg Venuses! I'm sure the art industry is already getting worried!
the Mill5 can record nearly any object in minutes and carve a duplicate in any stone in a few hours.'
If it can duplicate CD's and DVD's, the RIAA are going to be annoyed.
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Wouldn't you love for your girlfriend (mythical or otherwise) to pose naked for this?
and then again, you could pose and give her something to keep her company while you are away... perhaps with some editing, but you don't want her to prefer it to the real thing, do you?
Wonder when angelina jolie has a day off to go there ;-) :-(
As I'm not expecting her to come here
Oh, boy! Now we can start preserving all of today's data in really long-lasting form! They should start with instructions of how to build and program one of these machines!
If you could scale down models it would be fantastic. Just imagine the heights of tackyness that could be reached in gardens all over the world!
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Maybe I can use it to carve my name upon my ex-girlfriend's heart. She left me after 3 years. She said I spend too much time in front of a computer. She wouldn't open the electronic cards I sent her. She's blocked me on AIM. My emails are bouncing. I cannot even ping her anymore. Oh Joyce, forgive me.
Something that copies Scissors and we'll be set!
-Cnik