On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:40 +0100, Narada wrote: So, If I understand well: you order a lute and after a week there is a box delivered containing your lute. You open the box and you can start playing on a white plastic lute (or a paper or wax model).....
" > You will pay to them not me. Its not expensive. > You will receive your instrument in one week . Please read below > written details and technologies and prepare your mind to the 21th > century. > Yes that's lute playing 21 th century proper. And a lot faster than this brazilian guy! ;-) Taco > Collective All, > > I don't think this guy is for real. This is a scam. > > What he is offering is something called Rapid Prototyping. A process whereby > you supply him with 3d CAD files; usually of a type known as .STL, which are > then sent to a Rapid Prototype printer. I won't go into the way it works. > If you read his opening lines this is what he is asking for. What you would > get back is a plastic or wax model that is fully functional but only in one > colour ( usually white ) . The production process is expensive. The hardware > e.g. printers cost around £60000 each for those that produce models no > bigger than a shoebox, (you can buy kits for about £2000, which is probably > what our mailer has, but the end product is appalling ). > > My business, which is in 3D visualisation, animation and 3D modelling offers > this service thru' a third party company. He's right when he says you'll get > it back in a week, the actual printing process is quite quick. But once you > load it with strings it will just come apart. > > As for his little statement about seismographs. It's actually seismometers > that pick up the movements in the ground, that's then transmitted to the > seismograph, which plots it. > > My advice! Don't bother. > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
