{"id":303819,"date":"2016-10-28T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=c4085936081f3df236a740107a52b709"},"modified":"2016-10-28T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T23:00:00","slug":"cosmic-sculpture-a-new-way-to-visualise-the-cosmic-microwave-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=303819","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic sculpture: a new way to visualise the cosmic microwave background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing presents an attractive alternative to visual representation of physical datasets such as<br \/>\nastronomical images that can be used for research, outreach or teaching purposes, and is especially<br \/>\nrelevant to people with a visual disability. We here report the use of 3D printing technology to<br \/>\nproduce a representation of the all-sky cosmic microwave background (CMB) intensity anisotropy maps<br \/>\nproduced by the Planck mission. The success of this work in representing key features of the CMB is<br \/>\ndiscussed as is the potential of this approach for representing other astrophysical data sets. 3D<br \/>\nprinting such datasets represents a highly complementary approach to the usual 2D projections used<br \/>\nin teaching and outreach work, and can also form the basis of undergraduate projects. The CAD files<br \/>\nused to produce the models discussed in this paper are made available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing presents an attractive alternative to visual representation of physical datasets such as<br \/>\nastronomical images that can be used for research, outreach or teaching purposes, and is especially<br \/>\nrelevant to people with a visual disability. We h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}