Printing An Earthquake

By on November 20th, 2011 in Design

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If you happen to come by some digital data of any kind, watch out – it might become a 3D print! Now we see artist Luke Jerram has produced a 3D print of an earthquake, taking the digital data from a seismometer, applying a bit of rotation and voila, a very cool 3D model. Called a “Seisomgram”, the work evidently represents nine minutes of the devastating Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami. 
 
Beautiful, memorable and fragile, like the lives it honors. 
 

By Kerry Stevenson

Kerry Stevenson, aka "General Fabb" has written over 8,000 stories on 3D printing at Fabbaloo since he launched the venture in 2007, with an intention to promote and grow the incredible technology of 3D printing across the world. So far, it seems to be working!