Where would we be without the world’s graduate art projects? In relation to Markus Kayser’s Solar Sinter, we’d never have seen the day when a solar-powered 3D printer would turn Saharan sand right into a perfectly suitable glass bowl. Well, lucky for us (we suppose) we are living in a global overflowing with MA students, and awash of their often confusing, sometimes inspiring projects. Solar Sinter, now on display on the Royal College of Art, falls into the latter category, taking the Earth’s natural elements, and turning them into functioning pieces of a burgeoning technology. Solar Sinter uses the sun’s rays in preference to a laser and sand instead of resin, in a process which is perhaps more visually stunning than the effects. See for yourself inside the video after the break.
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