Gone are the days of Lincoln and Washington’s plaster casts. President Obama’s portrait 3D-printed.
Recently produced by the Smithsonian Institution and a team of experts form the University of Southern California, the bust only required five minutes of the president sitting to get his face scanned by handheld 3-D cameras. Then, after an additional 40-hour-long process of digitally programmed plastic-melting, ta-da: This very topical and modern bust. The 3D-printed portrait will reside at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. According to the Los Angeles Times:
Presidential portrait paintings are a time-honored tradition for all sitting chief executives. But the Smithsonian in Washington has recently broken new ground by creating a 3-D printed portrait of President Obama that is believed to be the first of its kind for a serving president.
Yep. Definitely the first of its kind, unless you count F.A.T. collective’s less realistic but also patriotic Screwmocracy 3D-printed Obama-shaped dildo. (Image: Veooz)
Here's some beautifully uncanny valley-baiting art for your Tuesday afternoon: Replicants, a trio of 3D-printed sculptures from UK artist Lorna Barnshaw. Each takes a human face as its original model, using a particular software and printer to render out a final product. The idiosyncrasies of each process create the differences you see…
It's not just Romney and Obama anymore! Thanks to dropping costs and the nagging sense of terrible shame that comes with entering a sex shop no matter how liberated you are, custom, 3D-printed sex toys are now officially a "phenomenon," according to Dezeen. There's MakerLove and Dongiverse, two alternate-universe versions…
Yesterday, the 3D-printed gun operation Defense Distributed --whom ANIMAL profiled recently-- posted the above video, which shows an assault rifle emptying 30 rounds from a new 3D-printed magazine design. The magazine's name? The "Cuomo" after the New York governor, who recently signed a bill banning all magazines larger than seven…
