nervoussystem’s beautiful bracelets
We’ve talked about this before, but these amazing bracelets by nervoussystem are more than worthy of a blogpost of their own.
Everybody here at the Botcave is really psyched and very appreciative that nervoussystem took their designs and released them on Thingiverse for all of us to print out; these are some of the most impressive things that you can MakerBot, and are beautiful objects in their own right. There are three different bracelet designs and each one is available in three sizes.
Thanks, nervoussystem!
We've decided to discontinue several bracelets from our Cell Cycle collection to make way for new designs. This is one of those designs. I've uploaded it in three sizes:
small - inner diameter: 2.3in, inner circumference: 7.2in
medium - inner diameter: 2.5in, inner circumference: 7.85in
large - inner diameter: 2.7in, inner circumference: 8.5in
Inspired by the complex forms of radiolarians, where intricate pattern is integral to structure, these shapes derive from a simulation of spring meshes which form mirrored catenoid surfaces. We created interactive software to morph, twist, and subdivide each design, transforming a simple mesh to a complex patterned structure.
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We've decided to discontinue several bracelets from our Cell Cycle collection to make way for new designs. This is one of those designs. I've uploaded it in three sizes:
small - inner diameter: 2.3in, inner circumference: 7.2in
medium - inner diameter: 2.5in, inner circumference: 7.85in
large - inner diameter: 2.7in, inner circumference: 8.5in
Inspired by the complex forms of radiolarians, where intricate pattern is integral to structure, these shapes derive from a simulation of spring meshes which form mirrored catenoid surfaces. We created interactive software to morph, twist, and subdivide each design, transforming a simple mesh to a complex patterned structure.
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We've decided to discontinue several bracelets from our Cell Cycle collection to make way for new designs. This is one of those designs. I've uploaded it in three sizes:
small - inner diameter: 2.3in, inner circumference: 7.2in
medium - inner diameter: 2.5in, inner circumference: 7.85in
large - inner diameter: 2.7in, inner circumference: 8.5in
Inspired by the complex forms of radiolarians, where intricate pattern is integral to structure, these shapes derive from a simulation of spring meshes which form mirrored catenoid surfaces. We created interactive software to morph, twist, and subdivide each design, transforming a simple mesh to a complex patterned structure.
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Bryan Livingston
Check out this guy who was able to print one at 50 micron resolution using light sensitive resin:
http://3dhomemade.blogspot.com/2011/03/high-resolution-compared-to-fdm-kit.html
peter
That design is *very* impressive, the unfortunate thing is that the author has said he’s quite busy, so he’s only shared results, but not a description of the apparatus or the resins so that other folks could have a go at building one. All of the few details that were once on his blog (including some pictures of the device) also seem to have been removed.
After a bunch of digging, I was able to find this site, that seems to contain a few images of the finished device (incase anyone else happened to be searching, too!).
http://donsdeals.blogspot.com/2010/10/homemade-high-resolution-3d-printer-diy.html
I would be very interested to learn about the low-cost resins that he’s using, and hope that he chooses to share what they are and the sources for them, as well as more of the project details, soon! I think a whole bunch of folks are eagerly waiting his results.