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Color it! Oinkie

macouno — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:55:06 +0000

Shapeways published a nice new feature that I’m proud I got to help out with. You can now color your very own piggybank! Go here to have a look. There is also an article about it on SolidSmack.com

Shapeways switches to a new rendering system

macouno — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:16:42 +0000

The 3D printing community Shapeways is switching to a brand new Blender 3D based rendering system for previews of their models. I’m glad to have assisted them in the design of the scene and materials. You can read more about it on Blendernation.

Petunia spotted in mechanical engineering magazine!

macouno — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:56:03 +0000

Sam Brubaker was kind enough to send me a scan of this April’s copy of Mechanical Engineering magazine. Shapeways once again made the news, and the magazine put Petunia on the page rather prominently. Once again there’s proof that giving away things is cool!

Petunia spotted

macouno — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:01:49 +0000

Once again shapeways has made it into the news. This time on the rather well known dutch website nuzakelijk.nl. On the page is a small video, and if you really pay attention you can see Petunia standing in the background in a couple of shots.

Shapeways uses Petunia

macouno — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:28:47 +0000

Petunia is a 3d robot model that I created for the 2007 Blender Conference Art Festival. Shapeways decided to add a nice picture of a prototyped version of the bot to their press corner. Since then the lovely image appeared at several news websites/items.

Here’s a small list