A 3-D printer? Me wants!
Oct. 17th, 2008 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janewilliams20It seems to be real, too, though no price tag.
http://www.objet.com/Products/Alaris30/tabid/467/Default.aspx
So instead of spending the evening with some out-of-production minis, knives, super-glue, and swearing (and ending up with a figure still in two parts, assorted things stuck to my fingers, and a table that I can probably repair), I could feed a CAD file into a printer, and get a whole range of one-legged duck bandits out. I could go for that.
http://www.objet.com/Products/Alaris30/tabid/467/Default.aspx
So instead of spending the evening with some out-of-production minis, knives, super-glue, and swearing (and ending up with a figure still in two parts, assorted things stuck to my fingers, and a table that I can probably repair), I could feed a CAD file into a printer, and get a whole range of one-legged duck bandits out. I could go for that.
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Date: 2008-10-17 08:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-17 09:25 am (UTC)OK. For the first part of the process, I need to find something I'm sure I saw a few years back: a way of turning a digital camera into a 3D scanner. Take a photo from a few angles, convert the results into a 3D model. I'll Google in a bit, but recommendations very welcome.
Unless anyone has a 3D file of a one-legged duck bandit ready to use? John Hughes, are you out there?
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WTF?!
Date: 2008-10-17 09:43 am (UTC)"one-legged duck bandits" .... ?
"one-legged"
On land, they hop, on water, they swim in circles.
"duck"
We are talking 18 - 24 inch aquatic fowl here, nromally equipped with two webbed feet and (I grant) a beak and anus of surprising vehemence
bandits
Holding, one presumes, water voles to ransom, etc.
Remind me, one day, to introduce you to the concept of the prootwaddle -- and to its problems in co-ordinating respiration and inspiration.
Re: WTF?!
Date: 2008-10-17 09:50 am (UTC)http://mythologic.info/DvB/#bandits
That's who I'm trying to model.
Re: WTF?!
Date: 2008-10-17 11:44 am (UTC)Ducks, fine; banditry, okay.
One-legged ?
Item: Reduced mobility (And here I was thinking that an essential part of banditry was the bit where you Get Away, not realising that you supposed to hop around being bludgeoned by the blokes wot you just tried ter rob)
Item: Definitely impaired swimming. Unless the leg is exactly matched, won't it tend either to drag the duck down, or buoy it up inappropriately?
Item: What do they do when their quarry simply orbits round them, screwing the wooden leg into the muck and slime till they (the duck(s)) are immobile and at mercy? Or do they backsword?
The cigars seem no problem -- I eman, what else would yoyu do for recreation when you live in an aquatic environment, than mess with Burning Substance?
Best of luck with the modelling. Perhaps a taxidermist, some spare banister rail and the Master's Tissue Compressor would be the best bet?
Re: WTF?!
Date: 2008-10-17 12:04 pm (UTC)Re: WTF?!
Date: 2008-10-17 12:12 pm (UTC)[pwobably by a wascally duck]