original resting place of the casting
The hailstone mid-scan. The resulting mesh was nearly 800 MB large and had over 10 million faces
the process may appear psychedelic, but is just an artifact of my phones rolling shutter.
A printed copy, courtesy of the 3D printing club
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Hailstone Recreation
A professor approached me asking if I could recreate a model of the largest hailstone ever recorded and I said yes. There were originally only 2 plaster castings made and they were delicate to handle so I worked with associates i have built up at college to scan the casting with photogrammetry and and the 3d printing club to print such a large and complex model. Now that there is a model to work from, researchers can print ice molds and use it as a demonstration without fear of destroying one of the few castings left.
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