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Stratasys, in collaboration with Paisley Park, created a set of 3D-printed display pieces to showcase Prince’s expansive shoe collection in a Paisley Park exhibit - The Beautiful Collection: Prince’s Custom Shoes.

Paisley Park designers worked with Stratasys to bring their designs to life with 3D printing.

Baby Grand Piano
Placed in the center of the exhibit and built to display 11 pairs of shoes, is a baby grand piano printed using FDM® and PolyJet™ 3D printing technologies. The piano is the first-ever 3D-printed baby grand piano and is composed of 45 individual parts fused together to create the final piece.

Replica Cloud Guitars
The legs of the baby grand piano are replica Cloud Guitars, one of Prince’s most iconic guitar shapes. Stratasys first took over 250 3D scans of Prince’s Cloud Guitar and processed the scans into 3D print-ready design files. The Stratasys design team spent over 60 hours from first scan to final files ensuring that each element of the guitar could be replicated through 3D printing. The guitars were fit with actual guitar tuning nuts, bridges and strings – making them not only visually appealing, but playable as well.

Pointillist Canvas
In addition to the baby grand piano with replica cloud guitar shoe showcase, Stratasys also created the largest 3D printed polymer image on fabric of Prince. The nine-foot by nine-foot image is composed of 347,130 clear spherical cells with layers of color contained inside. The ability to replicate the photograph on canvas with such accuracy was due to the Stratasys J850 3D printer which can print more than 640,000 combinations of color, textures, gradients, and transparencies. The finished canvas was printed in 56 sections on 100% white cotton denim and hand sewn together. The canvas features an image of Prince taken by Jeff Katz in 1992.

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