#3d print course

[artbyblastweave]

Given the fact that every third post I see about Warframe is people hornyposting about the dehumanized, lobotomized cyborgs, Dagath's backstory dropping the frills and just flat out being about how she was kept as a sex slave/humanoid accessory before being discarded when the novelty wore off almost feels like commentary of some sort on something. Almost

[breeberrypies]

when your best friend on the planet ever scratches the surface of your autistic brain and picks out christmas gifts for you that feeds into your nerdy interests and favorite things.

@tallarurus 🫶

[violetren]

It occurs to me now that I have done a first coat of every piece of my dragon that SURELY bronze spray paint has to be a thing that exists somewhere in one of the damn shops around my town.

Because the idea of doing at least two more layers or hand painting before even getting to details is going to drive me insane.

[ofthesamewhole]

Bite the Hand, relief, 2024

[beeseverywhen]

Still makes me so mad that the hospital stole my teeth when I was too out of it from the anesthesia to fight them on it. I grew those! Just because they turned on me and I needed them out of my body, doesn't mean I didn't want to keep them.

[heckmate]

I wanna print a statue sized melli figure so bad… maybe I will tee hee

[thecapturedafrique]

While this post illustrates a great fuck you to corporations, it also now contains some misinformation. Specifically, Wikipedia states that:

It was later discovered that NTI Group [the company that now owns the 3DBenchy license] had no part in the takedown notices and had no intention of enforcing them; the takedown requests were actually issued by a 3rd party report which Printables complied with.

Here’s a link to the source.

there's a really funny 3d printing controversy going on btw.

if you don't know, there's a very popular 3d printing model out there called "benchy". this is used for benchmarking your 3d printer because it's a difficult print and will help test it out.

this is so widely used that people make their own little versions of it, remixing the 3d model to make benchy look cooler and stuff. however, a new company owns the benchy license. they are sending copyright takedowns to all those who wrongfully uploaded the benchy model.

of course, this is pissing off the 3d printing community greatly. everyone loved benchy and have used it for years. so someone on reddit decided to make a new model that is designed as a 3d printing stress test. one that works a lot like benchy, and people are freely able to edit it as they please. you know what they called it?

boaty.

[jcmarchi]

How good old mud can lower building costs

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/how-good-old-mud-can-lower-building-costs/

How good old mud can lower building costs

Buildings cost a lot these days. But when concrete buildings are being constructed, there’s another material that can make them less expensive: mud.

MIT researchers have developed a method to use lightly treated mud, including soil from a building site, as the “formwork” molds into which concrete is poured. The technique deploys 3D printing and can replace the more costly method of building elaborate wood formworks for concrete construction.

“What we’ve demonstrated is that we can essentially take the ground we’re standing on, or waste soil from a construction site, and transform it into accurate, highly complex, and flexible formwork for customized concrete structures,” says Sandy Curth, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Architecture who has helped spearhead the project.

The approach could help concrete-based construction take place more quickly and efficiently. It could also reduce costs and carbon emissions.

“It has the potential for immediate impact and doesn’t require changing the nature of the construction industry,” says Curth, who doubles as director of the Programmable Mud Initiative.

Curth has co-authored multiple papers about the method, most recently, “EarthWorks: Zero waste 3D printed earthen formwork for shape-optimized, reinforced concrete construction,” published in the journal Construction and Building Materials. Curth wrote that paper with nine co-authors, including Natalie Pearl, Emily Wissemann, Tim Cousin, Latifa Alkhayat, Vincent Jackow, Keith Lee, and Oliver Moldow, all MIT students; and Mohamed Ismail of the University of Virginia.

The paper’s final two co-authors are Lawrence Sass, professor and chair of the Computation Group in MIT’s Department of Architecture, and Caitlin Mueller, an associate professor at MIT in the Department of Architecture and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Sass is Curth’s graduate advisor.

Building a structure once, not twice

Constructing wooden formwork for a building is costly and time-consuming. There is saying in the industry that concrete structures have to be built twice — once through the wooden formwork, then again in the concrete poured into the forms.

Using soil for the formwork could change that process. While it might seem like an unusual material compared to the solidity of wooden formwork, soil is firm enough to handle poured concrete. The EarthWorks method, as its known, introduces some additive materials, such as straw, and a wax-like coating for the soil material to prevent any water from draining out of the concrete. Using large-scale 3D printing, the researchers can take soil from a construction site and print it into a custom-designed formwork shape.

“What we’ve done is make a system where we are using what is largely straightforward, large-scale 3D printing technology, and making it highly functional for the material,” Curth says. “We found a way to make formwork that is infinitely recyclable. It’s just dirt.”

Beyond cost and ease of acquiring the materials, the method offers at least two other interrelated advantages. One is environmental: Concrete construction accounts for as much as 8 percent of global carbon emissions, and this approach supports substantial emissions reductions, both through the formwork material itself and the ease of shaping the resulting concrete to only use what is structurally required. Using a method called shape optimization, developed for reinforced concrete in previous research by Ismail and Mueller, it is possible to reduce the carbon emissions of concrete structural frames by more than 50 percent.  

“The EarthWorks technique brings these complex, optimized structures much closer to built reality by offering a low-cost, low-carbon fabrication technique for formwork that can be deployed anywhere in the world,” Mueller says.

“It’s an enabling technology to make reinforced concrete buildings much, much more materially efficient, which has a direct impact on global carbon emissions,” Curth adds.

More generally, the EarthWorks method allows architects and engineers to create customized concrete shapes more easily, due to the flexibility of the formwork material. It is easier to cast concrete in an unusual shape when molding it with soil, not wood.

“What’s cool here is we’re able to make shape-optimized building elements for the same amount of time and energy it would take to make rectilinear building elements,” Curth says.

Group project

As Curth notes, the projects developed by the Programmable Mud group are highly collaborative. He emphasizes the roles played by both Sass, a leader in using computation to help develop low-cost housing, and Mueller, whose work also deploys new computational methods to assess innovative structural ideas in architecture.

“Concrete is a wonderful material when it is used thoughtfully and efficiently, which is inherently connected to how it is shaped,” Mueller says. “However, the minimal forms that emerge from optimization are at odds with conventional construction logics. It is very exciting to advance a technique that subverts this supposed tradeoff, showing that performance-driven complexity can be achieved with low carbon emissions and low cost.”

While finishing his doctorate at MIT, Curth has also founded a firm, FORMA Systems, through which he hopes to take the EarthWorks method into the construction industry. Using this approach does mean builders would need to have a large 3D printer on-site. However, they would also save significantly on materials costs, he says.

Further in the future, Curth envisions a time when the method could be used not just for formworks, but to construct templates for, say, two-story residential building made entirely out of earth. Of course, some parts of the world, including the U.S., extensively use adobe architecture already, but the idea here would be to systematize the production of such homes and make them inexpensive in the process.

In either case, Curth says, as formwork for concrete or by itself, we now have new ways to apply soil to construction.

“People have built with earth for as long as we’ve had buildings, but given contemporary demands for urban concrete buildings, this approach basically decouples cost from complexity,” Curth says. “I guarantee you we can start to make higher-performance buildings for less money.”

The project  was supported by the Sidara Urban Research Seed Fund administered by MIT’s Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism.

[syncrabyte]

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[epc-engineers]

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[maha255]

Animating a Dynamic Scene in After Effects

Welcome to the After Effects tutorial focused on animating a scene. The tutorial covers various techniques to create dynamic animations using pre-made elements.

get it new here

[technoscoe]

3D Printing Course Online Learning

Master the art of 3D printing with Technos' 3D Printing Course Online Learning. Ideal for both beginners and advanced users, our course provides hands-on projects and flexible online access, enabling you to gain practical skills and advance your career. Start your journey into 3D printing today!

[explode-this]

YOOOO MY PLANT IS GROWING

@blackindiaink printed me this nifty planter and gave me some soil and cat grass seeds and I planted them on Sunday and last night when I went to bed nothing was happening but this morning there were a couple of sprouts and when I looked at it in the afternoon there were more sprouts and that’s

✨ FUCKING MAGIC ✨

Okay, carry on as you were lmao

[diginerve]

Exploring the Latest Advances in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

If you are interested in becoming a plastic surgeon and want to heal and rebuild someone’s appearance using the latest tools and technologies, you must be aware of the exciting advances that have taken place in recent years. 

Let's look at all these fascinating advancements in this blog post.

Exciting advances in the field of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Microsurgery and Myocutaneous Flaps:

Microsurgery is a type of surgery that is done on extremely small structures which cannot be seen even with the naked eye. Because of this surgery, the transfer of small blood vessels and nerves along with skin and muscle, known as myocutaneous flaps for complex reconstructions, becomes easy. 

This advancement can help breast cancer patients regain their confidence and achieve more natural-looking results. 

2. Use of 3D printing in Craniofacial surgery: 

Did you know that using 3D imaging and printing, surgeons can easily perform craniofacial surgery by making a detailed model? This detailed model allows them to outline a patient’s skull and guide them before they actually perform the surgery. 

This technology is in trend because it allows surgeons to plan the whole surgery in advance and also make custom implants to improve their facial reconstruction. 

3. Trend of Non invasive plastic surgery:

When talking about the advances of plastic and reconstructive surgery, how can we forget about minimally invasive surgery? 

Well, when you want the patients to heal faster, improve their recovery time and do not want them to live with an embarrassing scar on their body or face, using minimally invasive plastic surgery is the right option. 

4. Use of technology in Plastic surgery: 

Technology like Virtual Reality (VR) is helping doctors practice surgeries before they perform them on real patients. This helps them learn and improve without making any mistakes on the day of surgery. 

When talking about the future of plastic surgery, there is a lot of scope for opportunities and possibilities that will help surgeons during complex procedures in a great way. Additional regenerative surgery also holds immense potential to regenerate tissues that help people with burned skin get new skin via skin graft.

E-Learning Course: Learn Better with Video Lectures

For those postgraduate students who want to become a plastic surgeon and want to do well in their field, the “Surgery MS course by Dr. Nilay Mandal” at DigiNerve, is a must to look at.

When you enrol in this course, you can not only prepare for your MS final examinations but will also get access to the informative practical concepts that were unable to be covered in the first place because of the limited exposure. 

The other benefits of enrolling in this MS online course are:

Designed and supervised with the assistance of 26 experts.

Online video lectures 

Case based approach

Interactive learning experience

Engagement activities

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Final Thoughts

To conclude, the advances in plastic and reconstructive surgery greatly help the surgeons. However, you must be qualified and trained enough before you jump into the actual place of surgery. With this surgery MS course at DigiNerve, you can prove that you are ready to dive in this field. 

So, are you ready to enjoy a rewarding career after your postgraduate degree? Have a look at what DigiNerve's MS Surgery course can offer you!

[verystressedcollegestudent]

if there's one thing i hate more than slackers in group projects its goddamn hypocrites