Cloning an irreplaceable antique
There is an antique lamp hanging in my kitchen that I managed to bump into several times when moving into my house. It was a very rare art deco slip shade lamp and was much beloved by my wife so I had removed each of its five glass shades and carefully placed them aside to prevent damage. Regrettably, in the chaos of our move, the box they were placed in ended up with the trash. After many unsuccessful attempts to find replacements, the naked lamp had continued to hang above our kitchen table as an ever-present reminder of my terrible blunder.
My workplace had recently purchased a large volume z18 MakerBot 3d Printer. I am always on the lookout for new things to print and so I decided I would try to print a new set of shades for the lamp as a Christmas present for my wife. Since I had matching shades on other fixures, I figured that I could capture one with photogrammetry and then print an exact replica using a special filament.