Let us celebrate the new acme of technology: 3D printed spam!

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3D printed meat: It's what's for dinner
"Peter Thiel's philanthropic foundation gives up to $350,000 to a company named Modern Meadow, which plans to use 3D bioprinting to create an "edible prototype" that's a meat replacement."
news.cnet.com


3D Printed Meats May Soon Be on the Menu

"Ready for the latest oddity to come out of the 3D printing craze?

A startup wants to create 3D printed meat to fill the human craving for animal protein without continuing to take an environmental toll on the planet.

According to Cnet, billionaire Peter Thiel is directing between $250,000 to $350,000 from his philanthropic foundation toward Missouri-based Modern Meadow to create the bio-printed meat..."
mashable.com


3D-printed meat: would you eat it?
"Mmm, "meat!" (Image Credit: photosync/Shutterstock)"
dvice.com



3D printed meats may soon be on the menu
smh.com

3D Heals

Beauty and the Beak

Beauty the Bald Eagle gets a second chance with a little help from technology. 

Shot and edited by Keith Bubach for Evening Magazine (KING-TV). 2008 Emmy winner.

Getting closer to 3D realism

Coupled 3D Reconstruction Of Sparse Facial Hair and Skin

Physical Face Cloning

Disney researchers can now digitally shave your face, clone it for animatronics
engadget.com

Coupled 3D Reconstruction of Sparse Facial Hair and Skin
disneyresearch.com
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Researchers develop new physical face cloning method
phys.org

Mound by Allison Schulnik

 

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Fabricating Articulated Characters from Skinned Meshes

Given a skinned mesh (a), we estimate (b) a fabricatable articulated character with (c) internal joints of hinge and ball-and-socket

type. (d,e) Final 3D printed characters (transparent material) have durable joints with a frictional design for character posing.

"Articulated deformable characters are widespread in computer animation. Unfortunately, we lack methods for their automatic fabrication using modern additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. We propose a method that takes a skinned mesh as input, then estimates a fabricatable single-material model that approximates the 3D kinematics of the corresponding virtual articulated character in a piecewise linear manner. We first extract a set of potential joint locations. From this set, together with optional, user-specified range constraints, we then estimate mechanical friction joints that satisfy inter-joint non-penetration and other fabrication constraints. To avoid brittle joint designs, we place joint centers on an approximate medial axis representation of the input geometry, and maximize each joint’s minimal cross-sectional area. We provide several demonstrations, manufactured as single, assembled pieces using 3D printers."

Authors; Moritz Bächer, Bernd Bickel, Doug L. James, Hanspeter Pfister.

baecher.info

Links: 
Adding a '3D print' button to animation software
phys.org