[ExI] save the art tech

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:46 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> >…Consider the sculpture of David in Florence.  What if it fell somehow?
> Could it be reproduced in tiny detail?...Of course three D images are
> routine, I suppose, and the resolution could take it down to the millimeter
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> Ja, the tech already exists BillW.  A pair of pinpoint lasers at a known
> angle are moved fore and aft until they overlap, creating a 3D file at
> higher resolution than millimeter, although I don’t know what accuracy we
> would get if we tried in on something the scale of David.  You would need a
> super-rigid support structure for the laser theodolite.  Such a device can
> be found in Lockheed’s Palo Alto Research Center.  Dentists use them to
> create exact copies of existing dentures.
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> With that data file, we could 3D print David, then even put a surface on
> the polycarbonate copy which looks a lot like marble.  We could send an
> important message to the world by digitally uncircumcising him (or is it
> decircumcising?)  Then while you distract the guards, BillK swaps the copy
> for the original, sneak out the back, guards never notice until the next
> day when the curator shrieks and faints.  Then we take the original, him
> set him up at the ribbon cutting at the local nudist colony.  Oh we could
> have such fun with this.
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> ​I thought it might be as you say.  As for fun, I hear of a gay nightclub
> in Vegas that has a statue of David whose crotch is covered by a fig
> leaf​.  Once an hour it lifts, accompanied by hoots and clapping.
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​Now who would want a gentile David?​

​I think it would be a great idea to have something like you describe for
home use.  I'd love to play with wood in a way that my back won't let me do
now.  I guess lasers are just too expensive.​

​bill w​


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