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Not sure what the news is here. 5 axis+ machining has been a thing for years. Stone, wood, plastic metal. No problem. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.

• hef19898 4y ago
  Came here to say that. Give an expensive 5 axis CNC machine model and you will get a sculpture with real life, or polished, surfaces. Coming up with the model is the problem. And in the end, a manually sculptured piece might actually be cheaper in labor and machine costs.
• gcatalfamo 4y ago
  An incredibly broad, stupid and merciless generalization - which still applies here - is that while there are people in tech with very deep knowledge of the world (for personal curiosity and such) there are many, many people in tech with no knowledge whatsoever of the world outside tech. And when those people see tech applied to a non tech-context, they think "wow, tech has done it again!" Cynical morning, sorry
  • throwawaylinux 4y ago
    CNC machines are high technology of the manufacturing world, or at least they were 50ish years ago. So tech has done it again.
    • gcatalfamo 4y ago
      CNCs are current manufacturing tech now more than ever, don't know what you mean by CNC peaking 50 years ago. Anyway "tech" in the original post was clearly contextualised non-manufacturing tech which is the predominant context here.
• taneq 4y ago
  Yep, this is just CNC machining with extra steps. So who's the "master marble sculptor" now? The designer who creates the model? The CNC programmer who sets up the toolpath? The customer who requests a particular sculpture and describes it vividly?