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3D scan reveals intricate detail of iconic 1829 locomotive (sciencemuseum.org.uk)
15 points by open-source-ux on Jan 30, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


"...enabling audiences across the globe to examine this iconic locomotive in unprecedented detail for the very first time."

"For compatibility reasons you are seeing a 360 version instead"

and what I'm seeing is a blurry smudge that can be dragged between stills on the horizontal plane. Damn shame.


Very nice. From wikipedia:

'It is the most famous example of an evolving design of locomotives by Stephenson that became the template for most steam engines in the following 150 years.'

So much innovation from a small, rainy island off northwest Europe.


Yooo. Sketchfab is the thing to watch. It's popping up everywhere for embedded 3D.


It’s cool and all but an explanation of why it was faster would be helpful. What we’re they doing wrong before?

Also the wheels are not connected to the pistons anymore so that rocket is going nowhere.


This visualization reliably crashes my mac. Anyone else having this problem? It happens within ~10 seconds of loading the model.




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