With Adobe Illustrator on your computer, you can create your own vector graphics. Add a drop-shadow effect to objects in an Illustrator document with Illustrator's "Stylized" setting, which applies a ...

4D printing is real, happening now, and has the potential to shape the world. Self-assembly in 4D printing uses materials responding to external stimuli. A regular 3D printer can be used to create 4D ...

Unlike the previous three-dimensional printing technique in which solid objects are printed, four-dimensional printing adds time as the fourth dimension. A 4D-printed object is not passive; on the ...

Drawing inspiration from how plants change shape in response to environmental stimuli, Harvard scientists from the Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have ...

Nowadays, 3D printing allows items to be created from a wide variety of materials — plastic, ceramic, glass, metal and even stranger ingredients such as chocolate and living cells. The machines work ...

4D, most known in science fiction and theoretical physics, is being actualized by the 4D printing technology developed at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab. This breakthrough enhances conventional 3D printing ...