Harvard Students Plan To Use 3D Printing To Help The Blind “See” Art. While there are blind painters who are able to create masterpieces, have you ever wondered about the rest of the blind or visually impaired population and how they appreciate art? Considering that they cannot see, and since most paintings have a “no touching” policy, it would be almost impossible, right? Well looking to change that and allow the blind to enjoy pieces of art just like everyone else, a group of Harvard students have embarked on a project called “Midas Touch”, which essentially takes advantage of 3D printing to allow the blind to “see” pieces of art.
The concept behind Midas Touch is simple – regular flat images, such as Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night, are printed in 3D with layers of texture on top of it to help the blind or visually impaired “see”, or rather feel, the art. It should be noted that this is purely theoretical at this point and that the team is currently working on prototypes to prove that their idea has merit. [Image credit - Evgenia Eliseeva] . 05. Assignments My poor sonFor this practice I wanted to print a child's head in the 3D printer. Actually, at first after watching Neil's class, I realized there are many new ways to do this. But I had to choose what was important to get the practice done correctly and in time.The tests we had done some time ago with the Kinect and Firefly had needed a lot of cleaning of the generated solids, and even if I initially wanted to use it I couldn't afford spending most of the assignments time cleaning the stl files.I had never gotten before a 3D model from photographic images, and was curious to see if I was going to be able to get it now.
Many checkpoints were needed, and I made some tests with small objects and no checkpoints, but the results were poor. Then I also tried with my son Darius, who has been my assistant and has suffered my experiments with him. Moved around the model, so I made my son turn around while I photographed him. Son was annoyed and I did not get anything good from the experience. Stereolithography Process Information. Incroyable mais vrai : l’imprimante 3D solaire qui fonctionne au sable. Lors du dernier Meetup Sculpteo, quelqu’un expliquait que le verre aurait été découvert pas des soldats Égyptiens : à force de rester sans bouger au soleil avec leurs grands boucliers réfléchissant la lumière du soleil devant eux, sur le sable, celui-ci finissait par durcir et changer de propriété.
Sans être certain de la véracité de la légende, il semble en effet que les premiers verres artisanaux trouvent leur source en Mésopotamie ou en Égypte, au troisième millénaire avant Jésus-Christ. Coïncidence ou pas, c’est encore en Egypte, en mai 2011, que Markus Kayser a tenté une expérience étonnante. Ce designer industriel allemand, étudiant du Royal College of Art de Londres a inventé la première imprimante solaire fonctionnant avec du sable. Il travaille aujourd’hui au MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, USA). La première imprimante 3D solaire qui utilise du sable, et aucun liquide… Voici l’expérience telle qu’il la raconte sur son site (traduction « libre ») :