Resumen de 3D-printed objects outgrow their printers
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.
