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‘3D printing’ has applications in which of the following

‘3D printing’ has applications in which of the following?

1.Preparation of confectionery items
2.Manufacture of bionic ears
3.Automotive industry
4.Reconstructive surgeries
5.Data processing technologies
Select the correct answer using the code given below :

(a)

1, 3 and 4 only

(b)

2, 3 and 5 only

(c)

1 and 4 only

(d)

1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

Answer:

(d)

CA

Explanation

S1: 3D printing is being used across a range of industries, from construction to medical technology. Its use in the food industry continues to grow. 3D printing of confectionery has focused primarily on chocolate and hard sugar candy, tut recent innovations have led to printing of gummy candy. http://www.mintel.com/blog/food-market-news/whats-next-in-3d-sugar-confectionery-printing S2: Bionic ears have been developed by some agencies, recently in news. S3: It is quite logical as constructing solid parts was one of the first uses of 3D printing. S4: People can now receive custom 3D-printed facial implants to help after illness or injuries. Read here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28639959 and here https://www.odtmag.com/contents/view_videos/2017-07-28/3d-printing-is-revolutionizing-facial-reconstructive-surgery/48616 S5: Multimaterial voxel-printing method that enables the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific imaging. It enables additive manufacturing of discontinuous data types such as point cloud data, curve and graph data, image-based data, and volumetric data. By converting data sets into dithered material deposition descriptions, through modifications to rasterization processes, we demonstrate that data sets frequently visualized on screen can be converted into physical, materially heterogeneous objects. It alleviates the need to postprocess data sets to boundary representations, preventing alteration of data and loss of information in the produced physicalizations. Therefore, it bridges the gap between digital information representation and physical material composition. You can read it here http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/5/eaas8652.full