[Info-vax] Re 3D Printers (was Re: Nice printers for OpenVMS?)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-06 15:20:35 +0000, JohnF said:

> Wonder if it could do a klein bottle, or other such stuff.

With some of the 3D printers units available, yes.  That wouldn't even 
be that difficult.   There are a half-dozen or so videos posted around 
the 'net, showing printers performing this exact task.  Folks are also 
printing functional sequences of wacky and very 3D-warped gears, 
architectural models of buildings (where you can remove the roofing or 
a wall to look inside, too), and complete models of pre-production 
sneakers.

Technology moves on.  In the software space, writing a functional web 
browser application in about fifty lines of code is also quite 
possible, for instance; the application frameworks are have moved that 
far along.  (That's for implementing forward and back buttons, reading 
and displaying the URLs, and rendering the web page from the remote web 
server.)


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