Iranian female artist fighting ISIS with 3D printing

[thewayne]

Apparently there are multiple groups who are crowd sourcing photographs of historical artifacts that ISIS and the Taliban have destroyed, then building 3D models and releasing them to the public. This woman is also embedding a flash drive that shows all of the research that rebuilt the item.

I think this is quite awesome.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/isis-vs-3d-printing

Comments

[silveradept]

That's quite awesome. The destruction of the priceless artifacts, not so much. But their refabrication, so very good.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

It was very sad when the Taliban destroyed those giant Buddhas, I think it's quite awesome that 3D scanning and printing can undo and further spread what they've tried to eradicate. It makes me want to buy a 3D printer and build some of these as a small act of defiance.