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3D Printing Helps Rehabilitate Vital Coral Reefs in Hong Kong

Scientists from the University of Hong Kong are utilizing 3D printed artificial reefs to mimic brain corals and help regenerate the coral reef population in Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park.  . (Photo : Nhobgood Nick Hobgood / Wikimedia commons) Coral Reefs Under Threat...

A workshop in Spain is using 3D-printing tech to make ‘fake’ versions of ancient masterpieces

Adam Lowe saunters between the works of classical art and antique sculpture littering his giant studio in the backstreets of Madrid. He stops at the sarcophagus of the Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I — dead for 3,000 years, and whose stone coffin has been ravaged by time, the...

Team scans cathedral to create its ‘digital twin’

Conservationists with scanners claim that Peterborough Cathedral is now the most digitally recorded historic building in the world as they work to make a “digital twin” of it. Workers abseiled from the 12th-century building with handheld scanners on Monday to record...

3D printing brings ancient Yungang Grottoes to world

With 3D printing and high-fidelity digital technologies, the immovable Yungang Grottoes, the 1,500-year-old masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist art, took its first step out into the wider world.  . The world's first mobile 3D-printed 1:1 replica cave of the Yungang...

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