Here’s an interesting new discovery and proposal from the labs of MIT: self-sculpting sand.

MIT. Photo: M. Scott Brauer

Essentially, the idea is a (perhaps limited) alternative mode of 3D-printing: simply place a small, model object into the “sandbox,” and the “sand” replicates a life-size version of the model.  And all this occurs in a distributed, sporder-like fashion.   Continue reading →