3D printing has been all the rage in the past few years, especially with dropping prices and the ability to own personally becoming available. The ability to print almost anything is a very cool idea that is certainly worth the effort to produce. 3D printing is one of those things that really changes the way people imagine creating new things and making items from scratch. It is as simple as scanning an item and then pressing a button and having an identical looking thing produced in any scale you would like.
Up to this point 3D printing has been used for few things: construction, hardware, and art. Artists have really started to get the hang of 3D printing and some really cool things have been produced so far. One thing I found recently though has caught my interest. It is not "new" art and yet it will change how easy it is to get cool pieces of art that played a role in history into our homes rather than in the museums only. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has started scanning all their sculptures into a database and then selling the files through their gift shop so that people can print out their own masterpieces at home!
This is really cool for a lot of reasons but what I really like about it is that if I wanted a small scale version of some piece in the future I could probably find it online somewhere or through a vendor, pop the file into my 3D printer, and have my own little sculpture to place at my whim. Super cool idea from the high art community on this one!
http://gajitz.com/3d-print-your-own-famous-sculptures-from-the-met-at-home/
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