A joyful and unexpected event for the Materialize employees was Leonid “
Lleo ” Kaganov’s visit to the company's Kiev office.
Leonid expressed such a genuine interest in our technologies that it took more than one specialist to satisfy his curiosity by joint efforts.
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In his
impressions of the company, the writer succeeded in what we have not been able to do so far: to clearly and briefly explain how 3D printing still works:
There are several ways to print objects in the world, but the main one is a laser that runs on the surface of a special solution and crystallizes the material into a solid. The special mechanism goes down a fraction of a millimeter deep into the liquid, and the laser already draws the next molecular layer. The accuracy in this case - the tenth of a millimeter.
Virtual skull in science fiction hand
After a short tour, the writer talked with staff, read poems and answered many questions: about the information future of Russia, about the literary institutions of the past, about where to find inspiration and topics for creativity, as well as about many other things.
It looked like this:
