(2026) spins a real snail shell’s growth into perpetual motion! 🚀🎨 A tiny scanned shell becomes ~95% algorithmic stainless-steel 3D print that whirls on a motor base, creating the optical illusion of endless expansion. Gallery-ready kinetic hybrid of biology + additive.
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3D-Printed Oyster Bricks Offer New Possibilities for Marine Habitat Restoration
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Montana Tech + MSU just dropped a full-scale 3D-printed replica of Edmonia Lewis’s The Death of Cleopatra (1876) at the Museum of the Rockies! 115 PLA pieces, 1,150 print hours, hand-assembled and finished—bringing a nearly-lost masterpiece back into physical view through additive. Scale, history, and tech colliding in a real museum gallery.
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Zurich researchers are 3D printing artificial molasse sandstone with sub-millimeter, intentionally placed internal weakness layers. The binder-jetted stone shells simulate centuries of macro-weathering to help conservators protect historic stone monuments & relief carvings! 🗿🧪
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#BinderJetting #ETHZurich #HistoricPreservation #Sculpture #AdditiveManufacturing #MaterialsScience
The Metropolitan Museum of Art expanded its Open Access initiative, publishing high-resolution structured-light and photogrammetry 3D models (including Canova’s Perseus). Digital archivists and sculptors can analyze fine tool-mark micro-textures and sub-millimeter geometries! 📐🏛️
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#3DScanning #MuseumTech #DigitalHeritage #TheMet #Photogrammetry #3DPrinting #Sculpture
Not 3d printing! But cool and very well done!
Carole Feuerman. Reborn into the Water designboom.com/events/carole…
Vincent Edwards’ Leaning Tower (2026) is a compact 3D-printed ceramic sculpture—leaning, unique, gallery-ready—showing additive clay still delivers fresh fine-art forms on Artsy right now. 🎨🛠️🌟 An 11×7×7 in uniquely leaning ceramic tower, printed and finished, available through MIXD Gallery; simple scale, precise layers, and quiet material presence.
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#3DPrinting #AdditiveManufacturing #FineArt #Sculpture #ContemporaryArt #DigitalFabrication #TechArt Which of these fires up your next 3D idea? Tag artists, drop thoughts, dream wild below! ✨ #3DArtRevolution
Not sure why they just didn't laser-cut these, but hey.
Atelier DARN’s Woven weaves ~700 interlocking miscanthus-filament modules + wood into a temporary land-art pavilion that grows, weathers and returns to the forest floor—no glue, no rope. 🛠️✨🚀 Cross-shaped biodegradable printed modules lock in four directions, climbing from the Gavarres forest floor toward the trees so the structure can be gradually covered, weathered and reclaimed by the landscape.
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Coco Brun’s Landscape Memories turns 3D-scanned Puglian caves into modular ceramic extrusions that breathe scents of sea, earth & vegetation—clay drips, twists & kiln irregularities locked in. ✨🌟🎨 Three modular ceramic sculptures, layer-printed from cave scans then glazed and fired, diffuse overlapping fragrances (Marino, Terra, Bosco) so the fourth scent emerges only through air, bodies and time. On view in the Lake Como Design Festival context.
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Coco Brun’s Landscape Memories turns 3D-scanned Puglian caves into modular ceramic extrusions that breathe scents of sea, earth & vegetation—clay drips, twists & kiln irregularities locked in. ✨🌟🎨 Three modular ceramic sculptures, layer-printed from cave scans then glazed and fired, diffuse overlapping fragrances (Marino, Terra, Bosco) so the fourth scent emerges only through air, bodies and time. On view in the Lake Como Design Festival context.
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Unfold’s Freeze Frame 82.2 freezes a digital curtain simulation into a 4x4m load-bearing aluminum gate via WAAM robotic welding—250kg of layered metal, semi-transparent by day, veiling the mystery by night. 🚀🎨🛠️ A monumental 4×4m aluminum “curtain” caught mid-billow (frame 82.2), robotically printed bead-by-bead and assembled into the new Design Museum Gent entrance gate. Soft metallic folds catch light while remaining structurally solid.
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HUGE!!!!
NVIDIA opens CAD modelling kernel: what could it mean for AI-assisted design and 3D printing? - 3D Printing Industry 3dprintingindustry.com/news/… #3dprinting #3dmodeling #ai #CAD #additive
STUDIO38D Minotaur — 3 m, 363 parts, 2,867 hrs, 135 kg PETG. Schuster Park labyrinth for Roma Sud Summer Fest (9 Sep–15 Oct 2026). Myth + engineering. #3Dprint #Art
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Cultural Heritage & High-Density 3D Scanning 🏛️
Museum conservators are using high-density 3D scanning & photogrammetry alongside marble originals to analyze tool marks & studio techniques in 19th-century sculpture. Incredible bridge between fine art history & digital capture! 📸✨
🔗 si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smi…
#3DScanning #MuseumTech #DigitalHeritage #CulturalPreservation #3DPrinting #Sculpture
Ninefold turns scrap PLA into a walk-through sound field! 🚀🎨 Hyojin Kwon, Jeremy Muller + Misri Patel shred lab waste and pellet-print nine tuned resonators. Failed prints, reborn as music. 🛠️✨🌟
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Nine translucent-to-opaque columns and chambers, layered in mixed-batch color, each tuned to its own harmonic so the sound moves with you at Reeves House, Woodstock, Georgia.
#3DPrinting #AdditiveManufacturing #SustainableArt #Sculpture #ContemporaryArt #DigitalFabrication #Innovation
BUSTAN just wrapped a living olive tree in robot-printed earth. 🚀🎨 178 porous bricks, soil + plant fiber, each one a niche for shade, moisture, insects, birds. Additive as orchard. On view at Design Museum Holon through March 2027! 🛠️✨🌟 designboom.com/architecture/… Ochre, layered earthen walls close around the canopy—bamboo tubes punched through the print so the pavilion breathes with the tree.
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Unreal. I mean just WOW! The sculpture and the storytelling behind this piece is mind blowing.
“The Worlds Within” - Srushti Patil’s couture piece blends sculptural art and wearable fashion, featuring 3D-printed felted human figures which explores identity, human vulnerability and transformation through a mixed-media piece that embodies complex emotions and contradictions of being human. The couture piece exhibited at Milan Fashion Week’s Kering HQ
Love seeing artists move beyond raw plastic by pairing multi-material prints with cold-cast metal powders, resin, and charred wood. The print isn't always the end product—it's the foundation. Don't be afraid to mix digital precision with post-processing!
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