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February 18th, 2010, 00:30
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/340x_onionbot.jpgThere'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 megarobot.
David Bowen's "Growth Modeling Device (http://gizmodo.com/tag/growthmodelingdevice/)" 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.
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!
David Bowen has all sorts of other neat kinetic sculpture works up on his site (http://www.dwbowen.com/index.html). [David Bowen (http://www.dwbowen.com/index.html) via Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/16/art-installation-sca.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Bo ing%29)]
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David Bowen's "Growth Modeling Device (http://gizmodo.com/tag/growthmodelingdevice/)" 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.
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!
David Bowen has all sorts of other neat kinetic sculpture works up on his site (http://www.dwbowen.com/index.html). [David Bowen (http://www.dwbowen.com/index.html) via Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/16/art-installation-sca.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Bo ing%29)]
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