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Stratasys Creates First-of-their-kind 3D Printed Display Pieces for Paisley Park’s Newest Exhibition, The Beautiful Collection: Prince’s Custom Shoes
Exhibit includes a transparent baby grand piano, playable guitars, and a 9-foot-tall pointillist image of Prince with over 347,000 individual 3D-printed
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nExhibit includes a transparent baby grand piano, playable guitars, and a 9-foot-tall pointillist image of Prince with over 347,000 individual 3D-printed cells\n\n EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. & REHOVOT, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nStratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS), a leader in polymer 3D printing solutions, in collaboration with the design team at Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minn., has created a custom set of 3D-printed display pieces to showcase Prince’s expansive shoe collection in a new Paisley Park exhibit - The Beautiful Collection: Prince’s Custom Shoes. Paisley Park designers and museum curators worked with Stratasys to bring their designs to life by pushing the limits of what’s possible with 3D printing.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211021005101/en/3D printed baby grand piano display case. (Photo: Business Wire)\nThe Beautiful Collection highlights approximately 300 pairs of shoes worn by Prince throughout his career. The Paisley Park team has thoughtfully displayed the shoes in a way that highlights Prince’s impact on fashion, performance, and popular culture.\n\nBaby Grand Piano\n\nPlaced in the center of the exhibit and built to display 11 pairs of shoes, is a baby grand piano printed using both FDM® and PolyJet™ 3D printing technologies. The piano is the first-ever 3D-printed baby grand piano and is composed of 45 individual parts fused together to create the final piece. All structural parts were printed in Nylon12 Carbon Fiber and non-load-bearing covers were printed in ASA Black material. Stratasys utilized the company’s Stratasys F900 3D printer and Stratasys Fortus 450 3D printer to print the structural parts. The keys of the piano were printed using PolyJet technology on the Stratasys J850 3D printer using VeroUltra White and VeroUltra Black materials – no paint was necessary to finish the keys.\n\nReplica Cloud Guitars\n\nWhen designing the exhibit, Duff Eisenschenk, Designer for Paisley Park, wanted to ensure that iconic Prince elements were included in the exhibit. To highlight one such item, Eisenschenk designed the legs of the baby grand piano to be replica Cloud Guitars, one of Prince’s most iconic guitar shapes. Stratasys first took over 250 3D scans of Prince’s Cloud Guitar and processed the scans into 3D print-ready design files. The ...