Airplanes don't have feathers. Given 3D printing and full acoustic simulation, why would you make a "violin". That design came from another set of constraints (properties of wood, available configuration tools, etc.). New instrument would be based on other constraints, which could use principles of aesthetics. --R On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
​Hello,
they made one experiment once to make a violin from scratch using a design based on acoustic and physics only, they actually ​succeeded in making one, the sound was good, even comparable to a Stradivarius, it worked, the only thing is that the violin was ugly. The article was on Scientific American a long time ago.
I think that 3D printing is about the same, we probably could print a violin, it could also sound pretty good, but it won't replace the look and feel and lightness of a wooden real model. Does anybody ever saw the film : The Red Violin ?
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