Netherlands based rapid prototyping company 'Shapeways' offers an online service for anyone (they aren't the only ones). Upload your design, choose your material, they print it and post it to you..(almost sounds like a fast food noodle joint..hmmm which sauce shall I have....?) You can also choose someone else's designs and have those printed and shipped. I can see similarities in the way Shapeways and the Solheim Lab operate, it's their 'open to everybody' approach that makes the Solheim/Shapeways partnership in the case of vitraglyphy a natural step. What seemed like days after the Solheim Lab had vitraglyphy figured, Shapeways had the glass option for printing on their site (June 2010) thanks to the open source style from Solheim.
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