And old project, this was done for an Artist-in-Residence at the U.S.S. Constitution Museum back in early 2000 or so. It was a bit of a nightmare! The client presumed it would be possible to make a model directly from some sort of water simulation in a rendering app, but it wasn't quite that simple. At the time I had a blazing Pentium III, 433mhz with 384 MB of RAM, and various steps of assembling this into the final STL took hours of waiting and hoping. Actually getting it made(and I've never seen it made)was another story, it was supposed to be SLA'd, but trying to add the support structure would have taken days and been impossible to separate without destroying it. In the end SLS did the trick, it only crashed the machine once and only had to be glued together one time.
