Category: The Library’s Digital Media Lab

We worked with Birch Aquarium and Scripps’ Sandin Lab to create a prostetic shell piece for a turtle in need. She came in to Birch partially paralyzed with a big Read More …

This was an old project from October 2015. We were working with a startup to try turning sonograms into 3D printable models. The process was pretty simple, import the photo Read More …

Sketchfab allows us to embed 360 photo viewers in browser now. All we have to do is make a sphere, apply the panorama as a texture, and move the camera Read More …

We’re working with 3D point clouds, combining them, colorizing them, and formatting them to maximize their portability. This 2014 lidar scan contains almost 40 million points. We used a program Read More …

Microfluidics deals with the behaviour, precise control and manipulation of fluids that are geometrically constrained to a small, typically sub-millimeter, scale. (wikipedia) You may need to mix very small amounts Read More …

You can spend hours sanding and polishing clear PLA 3D prints and never get to a real transparent finish. We’ve started experimenting with a product called XTC-3D, a resin which Read More …

We recently purchased an Asus Zenfone which offers IR emitters and sensors as a means to scan and track the real world. There are some apps that allow you to Read More …

DML Assistant Janice Zhao has been working with Blender’s fluid simulation module. This animated chocolate fountain looks pretty good, I must have watched it a hundred times now. Mesmerizing.  

We’ve been messing with projection mapping these past two weeks. The idea is that you look at the wall mural from a spot right in front of our service desk Read More …