badges Physical !

[Tom Callaway]

On 08/28/2013 01:24 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> On 08/28/2013 12:03 PM, Ralph Bean wrote:
>> Thanks for looking into it.  It would be really sweet.  :)
>>
>> One thing discussed at Flock was to auto-generate (or a close to
>> automatically as possible) 3d-printing specs from our badge svgs.  We
>> could then upload to thingiverse and link to the entry from our badge
>> profile.  Does that figure in to this effort at all?
> 
> I think Ryan looked into this and the artwork - as it is - is too
> finely-detailed for something like this to work. :-/ Maybe if the size
> was increased to a much larger size it would? I'm not sure though.

Yeah, I talked to Ryan about this and he showed me why the designs on
the badges will be difficult to automate into 3d models. Ryan and I can
do it by hand, but automating it will be troublesome.

If I ever finish writing this book, I'll have spare time to make 3d
models. :)

~tom

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