Min Ji Kim Kim – Looking Outwards – 03

This model of the human brain was created through voxel-printing, which is a new 3D printing method created by MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter Group. Printing in voxels, which are the equivalent of 3D pixels, allows for much more precise renderings of the complex and fine details present in 3D computerized data. Further, it allows one to properly visualize any “floating” structures that aren’t directly connected to the body of the object. Before voxel-printing, 3D printing required a computerized model of the structure first, which often distorted images. With the availability of voxel-printing, 3D printed objects are now created in much higher definition.

I am fascinated by this recreation of lung tissue and how this new 3D printing method is able to capture the most fine and minute details, recreating computerized data into extremely accurate physical visualizations. Because voxel-printing can also print “floating” structures, computer models will no longer suffer a loss in quality when they’re physically brought to life. I believe that voxel-printing will improve the 3D printing industry and open doors for new ways of modeling and creating objects. 

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/making-data-matter/overview/