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Video: New Type of 3D Printing Was Inspired By Terminator 2
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This new 3D printing technology looks like science fiction. But it’s entirely real — the scientists who created it took inspiration from the futuristic liquid metal in the movie Terminator 2.
Joseph DeSimone and the other University of North Carolina scientists who describe the technology in a new paper published today in Science call it “continuous liquid interface production.” (They’ve also founded a new company called Carbon3D to sell the printer.)
Unlike conventional 3D printing, which prints in layers, their printer continuously forms a new object. As a result, they say, it’s much faster than conventional 3D printing, taking minutes instead of hours.
This could finally bring the big advantage of 3D printing — that it lets you easily customize or tweak designs by making changes to software, rather than building new manufacturing machines — to mass consumer products.
How “continuous” 3D printing actually works
There are a few different types of existing 3D printers, but they mostly work via the same principle: a printing head passes over a platform over and over, depositing layer after layer of a material like plastic in a precise pattern. Over time, these layers combine to form the desired object — much like a paper printer forms text on a page by putting down row after row of ink.
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Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/03/video-new-type-of-3d-printing-was-inspired-by-terminator-2/
