Hi,
The recent issue of the _Economist_ magazine has this as its title,
and contains a significant article devoted to 3-D printing, using
fabricators (or "fabbers"). Essentially these are forms of ink jet
printers which create 3-D objects in plastic or metal.
Shapeways (http://www.shapeways.com) is a commercial firm which will
'print' out objects, things in stainless steel, alumide, glass, nylon,
polycarbonate, acrylic. The maximum size for stainless steel (also
available in 'bronze diffused' matt) is 100cm(W)x45(D)x25(H) @ upwards
of $10 per cubic cm.
Can one 'print' a dial, gnomon and all, for example? Could an
incompetent like me print out a fabulously ornate gnomon which hitherto
only the likes of Tony Moss could create?
As Agatha Christie's detective, Hercule Poroit was wont to say, it
makes one 'furiously to think'.
best wishes,
Peter
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