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According to the folks at Gravity Sketch, the future of design is virtual reality — and they’ve got new software to convince you of exactly that. “We looked at a lot of the existing tools for 3D ...

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3D printing has segued from the niche lab to very nearly the mass market, and new startup CreoPop is hoping to tip it over the edge with its new 3D Pen. Built around an intriguing range of unusual ...

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A prism is a 3D shape which has a constant cross section - both ends of the solid are the same shape and anywhere you cut parallel to these ends will give you the same shape. For example, in the prism ...

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