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hmshms  ·  4801 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 3D Printing is Advancing by Leaps and Bounds: Replicators anyone?
As an architecture student with an interest in digital fabrication and experience with some of the newest 3D printers and prototype materials, i'm pretty interested in this kind of technology. The exactness of CADCAM processes could well represent a return to a kind of hyper-baroque ornamentation. Have a look at this work by Michael Hansmeyer - a series of columns articulated through subdivision algorithms and fabricated from sheets of laminated laser-cut 0.5mm cardboard. A 'sixth order' of architecture, for a digital future.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/16587/michael-ha...