{"id":4064,"date":"2012-01-24T06:23:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T19:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2012-01-23T21:50:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T10:50:55","slug":"laser-vs-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=4064","title":{"rendered":"laser vs 3d printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a devotee of the laser, you might have noticed. I think it has something to do with the fact that I think in plan. Always have. Then elevation. A vertical plan, really. But if you&#8217;re more of a sculpture-head, you probably think in 3d from the get-go. So then you&#8217;re more likely to be into 3d printing.<\/p>\n<p>As for 3d printing, Shapeways is probably your go-to, if you&#8217;re not\u00a0<del>rich<\/del> lucky enough to have your own printer, or affiliated with a university\/<del>rich<\/del> lucky\u00a0<del><\/del>benefactor. Well, if you are into the Shapeways, you probably want to check out the <a title=\"$200 to the winning entrant\" href=\"http:\/\/evd.evd1.tv\/evd-shapeways-necklace-design-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engineer Vs Designer necklace competition<\/a>. Who will get the upper hand? There&#8217;s $200 on the line&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;ll stick to the flat stuff. But if I was going to go into printing, I&#8217;d be looking hard at the connections and clever design of <a title=\"Permanent Link to 3D printed jewelery by Alissia Melka-Teichroew\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.ponoko.com\/2011\/12\/03\/3d-printed-jewelery-by-alissia-melka-teichroew\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">Alissia Melka-Teichroew<\/a>. She&#8217;s done some <a title=\"AMT - image 2 + 3 really explain the concept at work\" href=\"http:\/\/www.byamt.com\/#\/WEAR\/\" target=\"_blank\">flat stuff<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"the C3 project - Guilty as Charged\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joyaviva.net\/c3\/\" target=\"_blank\">But haven&#8217;t we all?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick, get the laser! (Beatles movie reference&#8230; I&#8217;m sorry, I&#8217;m actually talking about laser-cutting, not frying John-Paul-George-Ringo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,44,112,107,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-contemporary-context","category-dialogue","category-jewellery","category-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4078,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions\/4078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}