Via Nathaniel Wooten

These images came from a field trip to one of the largest 3D printing and rapid prototyping research laboratories at Loughborough  University near Birmingham. -More Info-

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http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2009/Volume-32-Issue-7-July-2009-/Dino-Might.aspx

"Jones took the full-resolution data garnered from the white-light scan process and fed the information into the company’s prototyping machine, butthe output still had to be done in chunks (based on the eight segments Andersen made of the scanned data) due to their dinosaur-size proportions.Later, those blocks were shipped to the Black Hills Institute for assembly.“We put the pieces together and then molded them as a unit,” says the BlackHills Institute’s Larson, who was invited to join the project by Murphy. Alaser solidified the plastic material that was used to output the prototyped model"