Do you remember those wonderfully illustrated pop-up books you read as a kid? Photographer Hugh Kretschmer has a love for picture books reminiscent of childhood, and he lives out that fantasy by creating elaborate life-size scenes you’d swear were Photoshopped but were actually formulated by hand in front of a camera. “Having a child and… Continue reading 3D Storybook Images that Will Jump Off Your Screen
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Meet the World’s First Self-Replicating 3-D Printer that Assembles in Just 30 Minutes
Are you thinking about purchasing a 3-D printer? Why not just get one that can replicate itself so you can start selling the clones to your buddies as well? That’s right, the world’s first self-replicating printer the BI V2.0 3D Printer by Boot Industries can produce its own parts to clone itself in just 30… Continue reading Meet the World’s First Self-Replicating 3-D Printer that Assembles in Just 30 Minutes
Astronomers Plan to Create the Most Detailed 3-D Chart Ever of the Nearest Billion Stars
Scientists hope to unlock secrets behind the formation and evolution of our home galaxy by creating the most detailed 3-D star chart ever assembled. Gaia is Europe’s new Milky Way Galaxy mapping-mission using the latest telescope technology to see the universe unlike ever before. Each star is plotted with information gathered about its position, distance,… Continue reading Astronomers Plan to Create the Most Detailed 3-D Chart Ever of the Nearest Billion Stars
Pencil Vs. Camera: Incredible Life-Sized 3-D Drawings
Ben Heine is a Belgian-based multidisciplinary visual artist best known for his original series of 3-D paintings that are big enough for him to pose with. Though Ben has a degree in journalism from Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales in Belgium and Utrecht University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, he is mostly… Continue reading Pencil Vs. Camera: Incredible Life-Sized 3-D Drawings
3-D Printer Recreates Indentical Replicas of Classic Paintings
3-D printing has set itself up to be one of the most exciting new developments of modern technology. Soon we could be printing cars, replacement body parts, food and now, as it turns out, even van Gogh masterpieces! Tim Zaman, a Dutch researcher at Delft University of Technology, has constructed a photographic scanning system that… Continue reading 3-D Printer Recreates Indentical Replicas of Classic Paintings
