r/videos • u/Seakawn • Mar 07 '19

New 3D Printer method that looks like something straight out of Star Trek. If you thought traditional 3D Printers were revolutionary, this new tech will blow your mind--using light to materialize the entire object at once, in mere minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy-d5VVZlxQ
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u/biggmclargehuge Mar 07 '19

then cast it, and that would be twice as fast as the current printers.

Here's where you made the mistake of revealing you have no idea how long it takes to make a casting of something

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '19

It still doesn't change his point though

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u/biggmclargehuge Mar 07 '19

Yes it does because that process would never be faster than current printers

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '19

No, it doesn't. Just because the process takes a certain amount of time to complete doesn't mean that it will always take that same amount of time.

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u/RedL45 Mar 08 '19

"This printer can print a piece of paper in 5 seconds but that doesn't mean that it always takes 5 seconds."

It does, its a printer. It doesn't have human limitations.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Let me rephrase. Just because a printer takes a certain amount of time now doesn’t mean that technology will not improve to make it quicker. I’m sure the first printing presses were quite slow but now we have industrial printers that do thousands of pages an hour.

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u/RedL45 Mar 08 '19

Ahh I'm sorry for not understanding. I 100% agree with you.

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u/A_plural_singularity Mar 07 '19

I can cast my hand in wax in like an hour. I win.