Groundbreaking new 3D printer 'the replicator' uses light to print objects in resin

The printer gets its nickname from the machine in Star Trek that materializes objects inside a tube. The printer first scans an object from multiple different angles and projects the scan onto a tube using different intensities of light beams. Images of an object that were captured from multiple different 2D angles and projected onto the resin-filled tube also did the trick – the object was recreated in its 3D, light-printed resin form. “Where the total amount exceeds a certain value, the liquid will become solid.” The resin absorbs packets of light, called photons, and polymerizes or hardens when it crosses a certain threshold. The printer is nicknamed “the replicator” after the machines in Star Trek that can materialize pretty much any inanimate object inside a tube.