Designing to Fit Other's Taste

Sometimes, with the Dr Glass podcast I end up making illustrations with the assistance or advice of a third party.  This is all fine and good, and has provided some great resulting content.  I'm not complaining about the process at large.  I tell people, that my aim is for a "win-win" synergy.

However, this is not always the case, as some colaborations end up in frustration, tears, and ultimately, some occasional "dude, I can't do this anymore..."

With that said, I feel the Oatmeal has illustrated this process of enthusiasm's decline, best.  I'm impressed with how he captures the desparage between designer (technical) with the customer's expectations.

EMVI chocolate tour

Tao tea and dinner

Yum!

Thingiverse - SALSA Man!

New on Thingiverse, the SALSA Mascot!  This is the logo for the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance, you know and love.  One of several medical and pseudo-medical devices for open source usage and remixing.

Here is what the description says:

This is the Logo to the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance.  With the sheer number of research nerds and academic weenies, it was only a matter of time before someone made a downloadable, printable, SALSA-man!

All you need is a 3D Printer and you are well on your way.

-Nicholas Giovinco

Thingiverse - Anatomic Human Foot

Freesider's are evermore professional printistas of sorts.  As our sprints are ramping up, there seems to be a growing interest in "organic modeling".  Things often found in nature fall into this category for CAD artists.

Here is a recent Thingiverse upload, which was made from some very simple modeling techniques in Newtek's Lighwave 3D application.  A little goes a very long way, indeed.




per Thingiverse.com:

There are 26 proper bones in the human foot; 28 if you consider the sesamoids of the 1st metatarsal phalangeal joint complex. That's over 25% of your body's total musculo-skeletal anatomy, hitting the ground every time you go for a walk or run! Quite impressive, really.

Read More:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot
learnbones.com/foot-bones-anatomy

This anatomic foot model was designed in Newtek's Lightwave 3D, as part of the podcast @ YouTube.com/DrGlassDPM

Anatomic study models can be quite expensive, search.anatomywarehouse.com/search?keywords=foot&x=0&y=0 so I wanted to share my printable version with the Thingiverse crowd and give a big shout out to Freeside Atlanta's Hackerspace!

Instructions

I've included the individual bones with a straightforward naming convention. These parts will be replaced, as I continue to add more detail and such; for now, enjoy!

Additionally, there are FootBones.stl and FootSkin.stl, for those of you Duel Extruding.

Otherwise, I'd be impressed to see some of the techniques towards printing this and having a clean separation from support material. This (and deriviatives thereof) will hopefully rival things like: molded study models search.anatomywarehouse.com/search?keywords=foot&x=0&y=0