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Catastrophe Becomes Art With 3D Printing
[Philip Lelyveld comment: I think this adds little to understanding because it isn't presented in a context of what a normal non-earthquake signal is like.]
Called the "Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture," the piece is 11 inches long by seven inches wide and is made of frosted beige-yellow rings. Jerram constructed the piece by taking the design from a nine minute span of seismometer data from the earthquake and creating a 3D image with a computer aided design program. Then he printed the design using a rapid prototyping machine. ...
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