FUTURE TIMES, I TELL YOU
in answer to garzabird’s frantic tag questions, I think this is possible if you get a cornstarch, sugar, and water mixture right. Maybe some other kind of starch like tapioca or something more synthetic, but that would set into different forms.
Yeah but, what i was wondering about was the support material, not the material the actual structure is made out of. The support material is what fills in the empty spaces while it’s being built, that supports the mixture while it solidifies, and gets washed out afterwards. Whatever was used as a support material has to dissolve/be removed somehow, leaving the structural material (in this case sugar paste). What i can’t get my head around is What Dissolves When Sugar Doesn’t. But then it occurred to me that they could be using a different method, in which a powder or liquid material is layed out on the printing surface and solidified with a laser (apparently called Selective Laser Sintering) which MAY NOT need a support material?? idk, i’m more familiar with the printers that squeeze layers of support and structural plastic which hardens between passes…