
“It’s a story filled with twists and turns and eureka moments on their mission to connect with some of our planet’s most intelligent creatures. “The scientific rigor and ingenuity that took Kassewitz’s team from visual communication experiments to a 3D print of a human being is mind blowing,” said Watchulonis. Nearly every experiment is bringing us more images with more detail.” The team’s next goal is to find out if and how dolphins may be sharing these echolocation images as part of a sono-pictorial language.Ī television documentary about the research team’s discovery of 3D images in dolphin echolocation is being developed by award-winning filmmaker Michael Watchulonis and David Albareda of Devised TV. For the first time ever, we may be holding in our hands a glimpse into what cetaceans see with sound. Most of the extra brain size is devoted to sound analysis, mapping, 3D. “But seeing the 3D print of a human being left us all speechless. If humans are so intelligent, why cant we understand what dolphins are saying.

“We were thrilled by the first successful print of a cube by the brilliant team at 3D Systems,” said Kassewitz. The data is then used to print replicas of the original objects used in the experiment, including the world’s first 3D print of a human being as seen with dolphin echolocation. The prints are made with a unique multi-step process that records and isolates dolphin echolocation sounds on specific objects, creates two-dimensional images from those sounds, and uses photo analysis to extract three-dimensional data from the images. Yes, that's right, Dolphin researchers in Miami and the United Kingdom announced today that they have successfully created the world’s first 3D prints using data extracted from recorded dolphin echolocation and printed using 3D Systems' Projet 660 printer.

Researchers at Create First 3D Print of a Human Being Using Dolphin Echolocation One story to hit my inbox today slightly perplexed me at first but on further reading I'll concur with the PR's 'first' claims.

Most of the time the fact that it is first is largely irrelevant and often not true but if the application is interesting it would make the cut regardless of its premiership. Amongst the abundance of press releases we receive here at TCT Towers I'd say the most commonly used term in a headline is 'World's First'.
