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MIT Scientists Overcome 3D Printing Challenge Via New Software

The new tech could be used to print anything including hair!

 

With years of efforts scientists have built a new software that can quickly and efficiently model and print thousands of hair-like structures. Previously it took huge amount of computational time and power through other softwares.

The 3-D printers available now days can print almost anything. Objects like a full-sized sports car to human skin they can do it all. But printing hair, fur, and other dense arrays has been something of extremely great challenge for these devices.

Thanks to the researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who have developed the new technique to bypass a major design step in 3-D printing.

Instead of using conventional computer-aided design (CAD) software to draw thousands of individual hairs on a computer, the team built a new software platform, called "Cilllia", that allows users to give commands of the angle, thickness, density, and height of thousands of hairs, in just a few minutes of time.

The new software breakthrough is inspired by hair-like structures in nature, which provide benefits such as warmth, in the case of human hair and movement called cilia, which help remove dust from the lungs.
 


TAGS: 3D design, 3D Printing, 3D imaging

 
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