3D Fluid Animations in Blender
We’ve been playing with Blender’s fluid simulations this last week. The process is surprisingly straightforward, but can require a LOT of time to calculate if it’s too high resolution. We’ll Read More …
Category: The Library’s Digital Media Lab
Mayan Amulet Replica
We’ve been working on this Mayan Tablet replica for a while now. It was apparently a pretty big find when the original was dug up in Belize two years ago, Read More …
Electric Violin – 3D Printed
It took forever! One of our regulars Spence wanted to make an electric violin for his girlfriend, he found these plans on thingiverse. We’d hoped she could play it quietly Read More …
Prefab Media Projects
We’ve been working with a team of grad students from SDSU’s Learning Design and Technology dept to build some prefabricated projects to help UCSD instructors employ the DML and its Read More …
Kuchi Kobi Model – Bob’s Burgers
We love making 3D models from 2D cartoon characters. It’s a great exercise in thinking 3D. This model is from an episode of Bob’s Burger’s, Louise’s favorite toy. You can Read More …
Poster-Sized 3D Map
Using Terrain2STL to create this huge 3d terrain map of the American West. We used a program called meshmixxer to cut the model up into 20 smaller tiles and print Read More …
Neural Network Coloring
This is so cool, it’s a webapp called Paintschainer which uses a neural net to color in images. Upload your uncolored outline and pop in some color seeds. It’ll expand Read More …
Coral Models – VR and 3D printing
SIO’s Sandin Lab wanted to display some of their models physically. Using Agisoft they were able to stitch a bunch of images into a really cool looking model. We were Read More …
Gravity Sketch- Sculpting in VR
We got this really cool new VR app called Gravity Sketch. It lets you build 3D printable models in VR and upload directly to sketchfab. The interface can be a Read More …
Upgraded 3D Printers
We’ve upgraded our older Makerbot 2s with heated build plates. It turns out the 2 and 2X share almost all hardware, so swapping these out was easy. Print warping was Read More …