Glass pieces created with the 3D glass creation tool will be exhibited at the Smithsonian Design Museum next year
The Mediated Matter Group based at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a first of its kind optically transparent glass printing process called G3DP.
Developed in collaboration with MIT's Department of Mechnical Engineering and MIT's Glass Lab, G3DP is an?additive manufacturing platform designed to print optically transparent glass.?
The project combines modern technologies with age-old glass production tools producing novel glass structures with numerous potential applications.
The G3DP platform is based on a dual heated chamber concept. The upper chamber acts as a kiln cartridge which operates at around 1900°F and can contain enough material to build a single architectural component. The molten material gets funneled through an alumina-zircon-silica nozzle.?
A selection of glass pieces will appear in an exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in 2016.?
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