Post subject: Re: Clive Thompson on 3-D Printing’s Legal Morass
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:51 am
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carlisimo109 wrote:
I’d expect that to make it much easier to be like GW at its beginning – selling miniatures for other people’s games. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it makes it harder to be a creator and that’s what the industry needs most of all.
That is what I am thinking too. But I find that the creative juices of the GW staff has become rather bland over time. Not that they are bad craftsmen (and women?). Not at all. The skill levels are generally rather high. Its just that the conceptual work seems to have stuck in a rut the last decade or so. Indeed, I find the Hollywood like tendency to avoid to do new stuff, but rather update already done stuff slightly boring. I'm thinking that this development might change that from outside GW.
I agree with you too, deacon. Claiming that current cost level is a barrier is probably not tenable over time. Oh, and people will CAD stuff no matter how much time it will take. I promise. The main thing about digital material is not that it is easy to produce. It is that it is easy to reproduce.
Maybe governments will have a say. But I doubt that gun printing is an issue in the US. Its not like it seems hard to get guns as it is now. It seems more likely that some form of taxation will be levied to curb copying.
It's not printing pistols and rifles I'm talking about - but rather military grade weaponry.
I'm a firm believer that 3D printing is the next technological revolution that will change the world on par with the creation of electricity and telephones.
For an example of what can be done - I always show people the following video:
They basically take a busted car part, scan it into 3d, repair it, then print out a repaired part for metal casting - amazing stuff.
As this technology becomes more available to the masses, what you basically get are star trek like replicators!
BUT - as I mentioned, the first thing that will stand in the way of this golden age will be the governments of the world that will, by thier nature, seek to control the technology and what people can do with it.
Post subject: Re: Clive Thompson on 3-D Printing’s Legal Morass
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 2:14 pm
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Joined: Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:04 pm Posts: 2757
Cool application. I'm going to post that video on our vintage boat community site. I suppose the real spare part revolution comes when useful metal printing is made available at an affordable cost.
I would not necessarily discredit gaming as an initial driver altogether. It is often trivial and nonsensical application that pushes the technological envelope. Sure, it would be more radical to print an assault rifle, a hip joint, or a house (I actually resisted the temptation to just write 'hip joint' again...), but little gaming pieces will come first.
Post subject: Re: Clive Thompson on 3-D Printing’s Legal Morass
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:28 am
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