Museums and galleries’ increasing experiments with using 3D-printed replicas for ‘touch exhibits’ suggest we are finally beginning to realise the potential of 3D printing technology, write Myrsini Samaroudi and Karina Rodriguez Echavarria.
A few years ago, we were promised that 3D printing would transform the world. In 2011, The Economist featured a 3D-printed Stradivarius violin on its front page, claiming that 3D printing “may have as profound an impact on the world as the coming of the factory did”. These enormous hopes for digital fabrication, and especially 3D printing, may have seemed overinflated. But perhaps the impacts are finally materialising... Keep reading on The Conversation
A few years ago, we were promised that 3D printing would transform the world. In 2011, The Economist featured a 3D-printed Stradivarius violin on its front page, claiming that 3D printing “may have as profound an impact on the world as the coming of the factory did”. These enormous hopes for digital fabrication, and especially 3D printing, may have seemed overinflated. But perhaps the impacts are finally materialising... Keep reading on The Conversation