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http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/352-Shapeways-Full-color-3D-printing.html Shapeways is a rapid prototyping service that will accept your computer generated STL files and print them in plastic. Now you can have the surface painted. For instance, you can make a sphere and print a map of the ear...

Thanks! I'll try it.

I wonder if gluing small acrylic spheres to the end of the rods would make the light more omni-directional?

I'm trying to make a model of a three-dimensional starmap, a "stellarium" . The problem is mounting tiny lights on the ends of lengths of wire. I was wondering if there is a fiber optic material that is rigid instead of flexible. The idea was to cut pieces to appropriate lengths and mount ...