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comment by rooibos
rooibos  ·  4058 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This Is Why 4D Printing Is Cool

What I find interesting about this is that the motivation is "backwards", that the whole technique apparently alleviates some of the size limitations currently associated with any particular 3D printer, and was not necessarily built around artistic motivations as the video might imply.

Also, (and this is very common in many technologies or techniques), it does still have limitations in the way the jewelry makers or fashion designers or artists can use it (compared to what they can probably imagine). They won't be able to envision absolutely anything and use this technique to create it (the product it creates is conceptually a 2 dimensional surface, the only choice of cells ls triangular, etc.).