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Ornamented Columns from interiorholic.com
Today's ArchiPic is a group of columns designed by Michael Hansmeyer. He used complex algorithms that created the most intricate and ornamented designs I have ever seen in architecture. The columns are so complex that "Every 3D printing facility we spoke to turned us down. Typically those machines can’t process more than 500,000 faces — the computer memory required to process the data grows nonlinearly, and it also gets tripped up on the self-intersecting faces of the column," said Hansmeyer. These designs were too complex for the 3D printer to print them. This is one amazing column!
Read more at: http://www.interiorholic.com/architecture/intricate-architecture-in-michael-hansmeyers-ornamented-columns/
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