The Secret Color Process

By on May 7th, 2012 in Design, Event, Hardware, Ideas

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As much as we’d like to have attended Neri Oxman’s talk at Centre Pompidou in Paris the other day, we were simply unable to get there. However, we were able to view videos and images from the exhibition, sponsored by 3D printer manufacturer Objet. 
 
Ms. Oxman produced fantastic and beautiful 3D printed objects inspired by biological themes, as we expected. She’s been researching this fascinating theme for some time now and it may lead to radically new building techniques. 
 
While admiring the beautiful pieces, we marveled at how well they were finished. Stunning and intricate colors must have taken weeks to prepare for the exhibition at Centre Pompidou. 
 
But we weren’t there to see them in person. However, fellow 3DP blogger Rachel Park was. She noticed the same thing – but being able to examine the items more closely discovered that they weren’t exactly finished in the way you’d expect. 
 
They were 3D printed directly, according to Rachel. In full, glorious color. 
 
Wow, color you say. Nice! But wait a sec, Objet DOES NOT offer color 3D printing. They do offer multi-material 3D printing, unique among the commercial 3DP manufacturers. So what’s going on? 
 
Ms. Park hypothesizes a curious viral marketing campaign by Objet, who have publicly – and mysteriously – “not” announced a new color printing capability. 
 
We hope to visit Centre Pompidou very soon and inspect the works directly. Until then, please read Ms. Park’s post for a complete analysis. 
 
Via RPES

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!

6 comments

  1. Neri has removed all posts with images from her sites, probably due to some agreement with Pompidou, but when they were there, Symvol software from Uformia was mentioned as a tool. Do you have any idea what is it and can it deal with colors?

  2. Neri has removed all posts with images from her sites, probably due to some agreement with Pompidou, but when they were there, Symvol software from Uformia was mentioned as a tool. Do you have any idea what is it and can it deal with colors?

  3. Interesting post. Objet came to visit us last week at our Houston Headquarters. They openly asked us what we thought about a color Objet Printer…would it be a good thing…of course we said…YEAH! but they stopped shy of saying they were about to unveil one.

    What I notice from the posts are that these prints are two color or "Duotone". Which can accomplished with simply coloring the resins on a two color current objet printer. I see no indication of a CMYK printer.

  4. Interesting post. Objet came to visit us last week at our Houston Headquarters. They openly asked us what we thought about a color Objet Printer…would it be a good thing…of course we said…YEAH! but they stopped shy of saying they were about to unveil one.

    What I notice from the posts are that these prints are two color or "Duotone". Which can accomplished with simply coloring the resins on a two color current objet printer. I see no indication of a CMYK printer.

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