Apparatus for forming a three-dimensional reproduction of an obj

Details Apparatus for forming a three-dimensional reproduction of an obj Apparatus for forming a three-dimensional reproduction of an obj

1990-08-15

1992-06-30

Howell, Janice A.

X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices

Specific application

Computerized tomography

378 95, 378 98, 378162, 378901, 36447424, 36441325, 364425, 395101, G06F 1546

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051270374

ABSTRACT:
An object replicator that replicates the physical form of an object in a polymer or the like by employing a Computed Tomography scanner or a Magnetic Resonance Imaging system, to digitize the physical features of the object to be copied. This data is used to form an electronic three-dimensional representation of the object. The electronic representation is then sectioned and provided to a three-dimensional printer to replicate a copy of those features by sequentially forming and joining laminae corresponding to the sections, to build up a physical replication of the object in a step-wise fashion whereby the three dimensional object is auto-matically formed from a composite of laminae.

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Computer Graphics World, Mar. 1990 by Terry Wohlers, pp. 73-80.

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