The Engine 4 maker space in Puerto Rico—which uses Re:3D's Gigabot 3+ printers—has been working with the Reef3D Project to 3D-print replicas of coral to help marine fauna regrow.

We think these aims are pretty spot on! From an implementation perspective, the system consists of a 3D printed base plate with a grid structure. It is angled internally so storage bins drop in ...

SLAT uses a sparse 3D grid of 64 ^3 = approximately 260,000 voxels as its underlying structure, although only about 20,000 of these voxels are actually used, located on the surface of the 3D object.