Printable Cups: And Other 3D objects

A ceramic cup, from the 3d printing website Shapeways (created by Cunicode as part of a One Coffee Cup a Day series of designs).

Following up on Fully Printed‘s vision of a future with 3d printing, I came across Shapeways, a website that lets you upload 3d designs and “prints” them in your choice of objects. One user, Cunicode chose to make different cup design every day. I’m quite taken by their Low Resolution cup.

In the finished cup, you can clearly see the quadrilateral and triangular facets that make up the 3d design’s mesh. I like that.

A 3d view of the Low Resolution Coffee Cup.

So now I’m just waiting until something interesting occurs to me. Shapeways would be a great place for creating some unique manipulatives.

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