Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Tuberosities

Was thinking about using Fimo or Sculpey clay (the stuff that you mold and then put in the oven) but I had some old potatoes on top of the fridge.




Maybe another way to do it is to print an MRI on paper and trace out the slice profile of each bone onto a slice of potato, then 'reconstruct' them.

Looks like





4 comments:

  1. Study anatomy and then eat your study apparatus for dinner with pepper and lemon juice. That's the kind of resourcefulness that's made this nation great.

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  2. P.S. my great great great grandfather's brother is the Ross after whom the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf are named. I carry on his legacy by navigating the ice in my bourbon.

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  3. Tuberosity, very funny, STRAIGHT TO HELL.
    Also of interest:
    http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/11/3d-printing-with-bon.html

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  4. Wow, Alexis. I should call my favourite part of the fridge the Ross Ice Shelf.

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