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Fourteen desktop 3D printers spent seven weeks producing the bones of a dinosaur that lived roughly 166 million years ago. The result is now on display at Blenheim Palace in England, where five nine-meter-long Megalosaurus sculptures have taken over the grounds as part of a new outdoor exhibition called Dinosaurs Are Forever.
British artist Jay Jay Burridge created the installation through his studio Future Fossils. But rather than carving all of the enormous skeletons by hand or producing them with traditional fabrication methods, the team turned to 3D printing.
To produce the 3D printed bones, Future Fossils worked with Gerard Shields of UK additive manufacturing firm Printpool. Shields used 14 Bambu Lab printers running over seven weeks to make Burridge’s redesigned bones in ABS-GF, a