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Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex

Posted by timothy on from the now-with-more-highly-integrated-business-principles dept.

After Donald Knuth's anticipated "earthshaking announcement," it's safe to say that the world is still here. yowlanku writes "Christoper Adams tweeted live from TUG 2010 Conference that 'Donald Knuth's TeX successor will be named iTeX.' " Knuth "also stated that this successor of TeX will have features like 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound."

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  1. Re:3D Printing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's usually referred to as Rapid Prototyping, and properties are limited to whatever the particular technology you're using can support. The good news is some companies (disclaimer - previous employer) like Stratasys have evolved their FDM technology to the point of creating usable plastic parts.

    Sadly, the venerable, verbose, and error-prone STL file format is still the standard input for most of these systems.

    So, perhaps Tex will support STL output for 3D printing :)