<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e11f0b6c-8c67-4bfa-be8c-15c502b58c0c/4DE49638-B16A-45EA-9802-548347F80C1E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.gizmag.com/3-d-glass-printing-method-developed/12963/" href="http://www.gizmag.com/3-d-glass-printing-method-developed/12963/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.gizmag.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gizmag.com/3-d-glass-printing-method-developed/12963/"><H1>Glass casting meets the digital age: 3-D glass printing method developed</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gizmag.com/3-d-glass-printing-method-developed/12963/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.gizmag.com/img/90C0434D-3CE4-40CF-8170-8FE8054122DE" alt="Vitraglyphic allows for much faster and cheaper manufacturing of high-precision glass prot..." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gizmag.com/3-d-glass-printing-method-developed/12963/"><P class="snap_noengage">A team of engineers and artists at the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.washington.edu/">University of Washington</A>'s Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory has revived an ancient Egyptian glass casting method and developed "Vitraglyphic," a technique to manufacture glass objects from fine glass powder using computer-aided design and a 3-D printer, paving the way for a significantly faster and cheaper method for artists, architects and designers to build high-precision prototypes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gizmag.com/3-d-glass-printing-method-developed/12963/">A similar process was developed by the team just a few months ago to obtain 3-D printing of ceramics objects from ceramics powder, sugar and maltodextrin</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gizmag.com/3-d-glass-printing-method-developed/12963/"><P class="snap_noengage">But unlike ceramics, glass powder doesn't readily absorb liquid: the process therefore had to be readapted by using a different ratio of powder to liquid - to hold the mixture together - and finally heating the object past its fusion point to create a solid structure.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gizmag.com/3-d-glass-printing-method-developed/12963/">the Vitraglyphic method was released for general use</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4DE49638-B16A-45EA-9802-548347F80C1E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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