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kleinbl00 · 1490 days ago · link · · parent · post: Rebuilding Notre Dame [with 3D printing]: a phoenix rising from the ashes
Dude fuck this guy. "Why use stonemasons when we can crush 800-year-old historic stone and mix dust and glue to form a horrendous slurry?" I don't care if your glue is sintered fucking inconel, dust-and-glue will NEVER be as resilient as fucking stone. And no one should humor this asshole when he pretends it is.We would crush and mix the stone and ash into a fine powder, that is loaded into a large inkjet 3D printer. The printer deposits thin layers of the powder and prints an ink on top of each layer, solidifying the powder to each other. Prints are then depowdered, and can immediately be put into the building.
The 3D printed material is durable against weather and mechanically sound, and would add upon the layered history of the cathedral.