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There's a saying that a watched pot never boils. You could also say that a watched plant never grows—unless it's being watched by a laser-wielding, 3D plastic sculpture-printing, growth-tracking megarobot.<\/p>There's a saying that a watched pot never boils. You could also say that a watched plant never grows—unless it's being watched by a laser-wielding, 3D plastic sculpture-printing, growth-tracking megarobot.<\/p>
David Bowen's \"Growth Modeling Device<\/a>\" uses a circular rig to scan an onion once a day with a laser, then employing a \"fuse deposition modeler\" to generate a plastic sculpture of that scan. When the model is done, a conveyor belt burps into action, moving the recreated onion out of the way and making room for the next day's piece.<\/p> <\/p> What you end up with is a visual record of the onion's growth over the course of a few weeks—with no tears involved!<\/p> David Bowen has all sorts of other neat kinetic sculpture works up on his site<\/a>. [David Bowen<\/a> via Boing Boing<\/a>]<\/p> There's a saying that a watched pot never boils. You could also say that a watched plant never grows—unless it's being watched by a laser-wielding, 3D plastic sculpture-printing, growth-tracking megarobot.David Bowen's \"Growth Modeling Device\" uses a circular rig to scan … Continue reading <\/a>
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