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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>spike<br><br><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Perhaps we could do vapor-deposition coating to simulate marble with a kind of hologram-ish surface.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>>…</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>It might be possible to use marble in a multi-stage all-abrasive automated David-maker, but wood is cheaper and easier to machine. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>>…The original sculpture is 5.2 meters. We should go for at least 7, then set a production run goal at about 20 a week for the first thousand units…spike<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Alternative, back to the 3D printing notion. There is a thermal-setting polymer which has a pearly-translucent appearance, don’t know the details. The outer surface could be printed that way. Estimated table dimensions for an actual size replica: about 1.5 meters. Reasoning: a typical human height is about 1.8 meters. David scales to 5.2, which is close enough to triple scale. A guy is about half a meter at the shoulder? Triple that gets us to 1.5 meters across. Existing flatbed D-size pen-printers go bigger than that, so now we just need to work out the details of the surface and outer structure.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Thermal setting polymers currently used in 3D printing would be sturdy enough for this purpose once we consider we only need to create an outer shell, reinforced with honeycomb patterns inside. Then the entire sculpture could be moved into place easily and filled in stages through a hidden hole with cement.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>If we get right on this, we could have several ready for gift buying season for those who have everything, including a 6 meter open space in their house to stand an enormous nekkid guy. We could create improved versions of David, decircumcised, buffed up a bit for our steroid age and such. There is a fortune to be made here, a cool buttload of money.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre></div></body></html>