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There is something utterly gimmicky by the use of 3D scanning!
Why? What does it bring?
“Growing” things is great, there are a lot to discover and dream there. And a lot has been done.
But simply 3d scan it and 3d print it, this is a real weakness in the concept. Is it only to make it manufactur-able? Then do art not design and inspire us with out function. But now this is not functionnal and it pretends to be (3d scan). Forced, not finished
Sometimes, design is not an end-in-itself. Sometimes, experimentation and rethinking convention is what’s important. Sometimes, just DOING is what’s important. I’m not advocating a completely lawless, ‘everything is great’ approach here. Judgement is a good and productive thing as long as you remember that it’s a subjective one.
For instance… all of the techniques behind this project existed before (sugar growth, 3D scanning, 3D printing) and yet no one that I know of combined them together in this way before. I personally think it’s kind of interesting, but fine, that’s a personal opinion. What I can say is that there a lot of people who have never seen something like this, to whom these designers brought something new. What I can say is that there might be some artist or designer or even mathematician out there for whom seeing this photo of a sugary camera spurs some revelation that will lead to something really great.
All right, sorry for the rant, but some of these comments are a bit tedious….
There was a kit for kids, when I was young, that did just that !!! O wow ! We can scan it now !!….so what ! Still looks like a crystal growing kit !
yummy!
Another example of designers trying to avoid doing any sort of real work. This is lazy. There is nothing extraordinary about growing crystals and then scanning into the computer. This technology is available for anyone who wants to utilize it.
An impressive work would be programming the crystal growth from scratch. Creating it through algorithm. There is research…and actual real work.
Not this sort of thing that is just basically pointless and easy.
dutch dutch dutch. it’s just so funny these days how utterly repetitive these designers have become. boring boring boring