Some graduate students in the Robotics and Automation Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines digitized the “A Friend to Lean On” statue in front of Guggenheim Hall on the Mines campus yesterday.
Professor Jered Dean helped out.
This is the 3D model with some support structure added to prepare for 3D printing.
Preparing the 3D printer.
The scale model takes shape.
The final print.
Never being satisfied, the graduate students decided to print a much larger version of the statue.
This video shows the 3D printer in action.