On a recent Thursday evening, a few School of Mines and Technology students gather in a downtown Rapid City parking lot to demonstrate the relationship between art and science. As SDPB’s Victoria Wicks reports, if creative geniuses pay attention to aesthetics as well as facts and numbers, there’s an indivisible relationship between form and function.
Mines Students Find Artistry In Science
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The 3D printer works to make a tiny anvil and hammer.
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James Tomich demonstrates by shining light through a 3D form how a 2D template can be drawn out on paper and translated to 3D.
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Objects made with the 3D printer. In the foreground is a swatch of fabric, and in the center are titanium objects.
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More things printed out using formulas found online or originated by students.
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Michael Willman, left, and Ian Markon practice the ancient craft of blacksmithing.
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Brett Trotter holds a titanium cylinder created from a formula originated by Mines students.
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Josh Hammell manages the additive manufacturing lab at the Arbegast Materials Processing Laboratory.
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James Tomich holds the red plastic mockup of a diamond as it develops at the atomic level.
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