ShipWright on BoingBoing

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by macouno, Oct 5, 2011.

  1. macouno
    macouno Member
    O Boy...

    Some of you may have seen my ShapeWright webgl based project..

    shapewright-logo-temp.jpg

    Part of it is a space ship generator called the "shipwright". It lets you generate a space ship based on your name, which then gets uploaded to shapeways through the API.

    Just now it got a mention on boingboing.net, which usually means heaps of traffic... I hope my server survives... and I hope it does't slow down shapeways' systems too much!


     
  2. stop4stuff
    stop4stuff Well-Known Member
    lol... that explains all the new ring and ship models in the gallery.

    Well Done!

     
  3. duann
    duann Member
    congrats..

    I did notice a heap of ships invade the servers...
     
  4. mctrivia
    mctrivia Well-Known Member
    very impressive
     
  5. Hey I was just playing with ShipWright with my friend and we exported the file to output through shapeways. The model is huge and therefore so is the price. Should we just scale it down to make through shapeways? And get the price something a little less than $4000. We were just curious to play with materials.

    Thanks for any help in advance, Chris and Dylan.
     
  6. macouno
    macouno Member
    Hi

    Just make sure you have the units set as mm in the shapeways upload form.

    Or... scale the model to some other unit size in a 3d package before uploading