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Offline Frank

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3d printing of glass
« on: January 20, 2015, 11:19:47 AM »

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Re: 3d printing of glass
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2015, 01:15:31 PM »
I saw a film reel of 3-D glass "printing" at an exhibition I went to in Krakow a couple of years ago.
The artists used the heat of the sun, concentrated by solar panels to print/fuse a glass sculpture out of the sand in the desert and filmed it.
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Re: 3d printing of glass
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2015, 03:09:50 PM »
I think I posted that here some time ago.

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