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The article says that he worked mostly on custom glass shapes with properties that were very difficult to factory produce, or had very low demand, not enough fo
by PudgePacket 10y ago
The article says that he worked mostly on custom glass shapes with properties that were very difficult to factory produce, or had very low demand, not enough for a factory to bother with.
- lordnacho 10y agoSure, but you'd think there was some 3D printer sort of thing that could do this? I've never seen it done with glass, just plastic and metal.
- mtreis86 10y ago3d printed glass doesn't have nearly the optical clarity or strength properties of blown-annealed glass.
- VLM 10y agoNow you have three problems, not only do you need an expert on glass technology in general, and an expert on the weird glass requirements specific to the obscure specific problem, but now the unicorn employee needs to be an expert on 3d printing technology. Which for a guy who mastered glass technology probably isn't going to be very hard to figure out, but still, making it even harder to find a guy isn't going to help.