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Rapid Prototyping History. Good overview of development of RP
Obituraries of RP Companies. Interesting overview of "failed" RP technologies. 2001
Rapid Manufacturing. Excellent overview giving history and definition of terms. 2002.
Ars Ex Machine. Overview of contemporary artists using CNC and RP processes. Dr. William Ganis, Professor, NY Institute of Technology. 20MB powerpoint lecture. 2005.
Tailor-made Skin from "ink" printer. Manchester News, January 2005.
RP and architecture. Discovery magazine. April 2005.
RP and Molecular models with Tangible Interface. Biology News Net. April 2005.
Human Implants, Gizmag, November 2006
3D Printing. SF Chronicle. January 2007
Budget RP. New York Times. May 2007
RP Overview. Science News Forum. May 2007
CandyFab low-cost RP machine. May 2007
In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms are tne New Bits (Wired, Feb. 2010)
Computers Turn Flat Photos into 3D Buildings (NY Times, Feb. 24, 2010)
http://sparllc.com/ All things 3D capture and visualization
Sistine Chapel - Virtual Vatican
Low Cost alternative for 3D printing (April 2009)
Transborder Immigrant Tool (April 2010). GIS enabled strategies for identifying safe routes for border crossers.
Hi res terrestrial DEM data from German Satellite (June 2010)
D-Shape: Worlds largest 3D printer (January 2011)
Print Me a Stratavarius, The Economist (Feb. 10, 2011)
Printablegun Project http://defensedistributed.com/ (August 23, 2012)
Hardware Renaissance.... The New York Times (August 26, 2012)
The Classics, Circa 2050 The New York Times (August 30, 2012)
Dimensions of Data... The New York Times (September 4, 2012)
Articulated RP Characters from Harvard (August 2012)
The New New York Aesthetic (rapid prototyping and social networking from Michael Rees via James Stewart) (Sept. 2012)
Building a Gun with the Push of a Button The New York Times (October 7, 2012)
Local 3D printing Company Featured on New 5 (May 2013)
3D Printers May Eclipse Tradition for Designers The New York Times (June 2013)
Disruptions: On the Fast Track to Routine 3D Printing New York Times Blog (Feb. 2013)
At the Printer, Living Tissue New York Times (August 18, 2013)
3D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution New York Times (September 13, 2013)
Dinner is Printed New York Times (September 22, 2013)
3D Printed Gun Goes on Display in London Museum New York Times (September 24, 2013)
3D Printing at Burning Man 2013 (October 6, 2013)
Drone Creates 3D model of Matterhorn (October 17, 2013)
Hi Tech Sand Box (Facebook, Sept. 3, 2015).
3D Printers - Best Printers of 2018? 3D Printing News (Dec. 26, 2018)
Laser scanning and Notre Dame (2020): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/3d-model-point-cloud-notre-dame/
Aluminum endocasting of fire ant colony (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QukwSTTbKrk
Slicing and scanning of termite mound (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0qdJh0YEAI&feature=youtu.be
Concrete Choreography (robotically printed pillars): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KshI1cR-egQ&feature=emb_logo
3D printed lenses (December 2020): https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/luxexcel-reaches-50000-lens-milestone-using-visionplatform-3d-printing-technology-180533/
AR used in fabrication of complex architectural panel (2021): https://vimeo.com/329229266
Eiffel CERN accelerator 3D printed tower (2021): https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/cerns-proposed-eiffel-space-elevator-accelerator-will-be-entirely-3d-printed/
Bioprinting Artificial Leaves. (May 2021): https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/delft-researchers-use-3d-printing-to-create-algae-based-artificial-leaves-for-space-missions-189478/
3D printed Steel Bridge in Amsterdam. (July 2021): https://www.newscientist.com/article/2283934-worlds-first-3d-printed-steel-bridge-opens-in-amsterdam/
Unreinforced Concrete Bridge in Venice (July 2021). Zaha Hadid's office. https://newatlas.com/3d-printing/worlds-first-3d-printed-concrete-bridge-eth-zaha-hadid/
3D printed rockets (August 2021). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz165f1g8-E (way cool...!)
3D printed homes in Mexico (September 2021). https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/business/3D-printing-homes.html
3D printed shoes (October 2021). https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/style/will-3-d-printing-change-sneaker-culture.html
Top Schools in Additive Manufacturing: https://all3dp.com/1/top-university-3d-printing-additive-manufacturing-programs/#arizona-state-university
3D printing at 100x (2015 TED Talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihR9SX7dgRo
3D printed flexible displays (2022): https://techxplore.com/news/2022-01-fully-3d-printed-flexible-oled.html
Bonded Quartz trophies with 3D powder-based printer (2022): https://www.dezeen.com/2022/03/10/3d-printed-quartz-sand-trophies-archisource-sandhelden/
Glass Microstructures (UC Berkeley, May 2022): https://scitechdaily.com/innovative-3d-printing-technology-creates-glass-microstructures-with-rays-of-light/
ASU's Volumetric Capture Lab (January 2023). Full motion body capture at ASU's Thunderbird School.
3D Printed Body Parts (2020. Wake Forest University): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV8zPtqOyqg
Multimaterial 3D Printing for Robots (2023, University of Colorado, Boulder)
3D Printed Cheesecake (March 21, 2023). https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/world/3d-printed-food-cheesecake-scn/index.htm
AI Used for"Aero-spike" engine (May 8, 2023). https://hackaday.com/2023/05/08/3d-printed-aerospike-was-designed-by-ai/
ICON CEO, Jason Ballard, SWSX talk. 3D printed houses. (April 22, 2022). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63uhYWkictE&list=TLPQMjQwNTIwMjOWPGCNu9lIug&index=2
ICON 3D printed houses on the Moon and Mars (May 24, 2023). https://edition.cnn.com/style/gallery/icon-3d-printed-buildings/index.html
Sugarlab. https://sugarlab3d.com/ (October 2023)
Jackson Pollock inspired 3D printing Technique. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2023/11/03/jackson-pollock-inspires-new-faster-3d-printing-method/?sh=6f32eb4438eb (November 2023)
Printing a School in a War Zone (March 2024). https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/style/ukraine-3d-printed-school-warzone-dfi-hnk-spc-intl-hnk/index.html