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3D Printing in Stone, or Copy a Sculpture in Rock

Posted by michael on from the no-chisel-required dept.

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.'"

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  1. My Sculpture! by toetagger1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if that machine could make a life-sized sculputure of myself? Where shall I put it?

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  2. Pick it up at Staples.... by Himring · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  3. The SMAA will not like this by denis-The-menace · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  4. Because someone had to say it by plover · · Score: 4, Funny

    How much wood would a stone mill mill if a stone mill could mill wood?

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  5. Re:Question on the cutting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does anyone know why they use a diamond tipped cutter instead of a laser cutter?

    Probably because the frickin' sharks demanded better benefits.

  6. Free Sculpture Foundation by Stiletto · · Score: 4, Funny


    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.