Bringing a literary train to life with a 3-D printer
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - 09:30
in Mathematics & Economics
When readers describe the experience of a great novel, they might say the story "leaps off the page." But for assistant professor of French Morgane Cadieu, that phrase took on new meaning last fall when she and three of her students set out to create a 3D-printed train based entirely on descriptions from Emile Zola's 1890 novel "La Bête humaine" ("The Beast Within").