3D-printed objects outgrow their printers

• Autores: Niall Firth
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2937, 2013, págs. 20-21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Skylar Tibbits at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Self-Assembly Lab and his colleague Marcelo Coelho have come up with a way for standard 3D printers to print out large objects. The approach, called Hyperform, converts the desired object into a single, long chain made from interlocking links. An algorithm works out how that chain can be packed together into the smallest cube possible using a Hubert curve--a fractal-based pattern that is the most efficient way of squeezing a single line into a given space. The resulting cube is small enough to be printed by a standard 3D printer.