# Robert Bosco, the human 3D printer

January 26, 2010

Shapeways community member [Robert Carlsen](/content/hisdesign?user_id=26454/index.html) pointed me to the work of [Robert Bosco](http://pagesperso-orange.fr/robert.bosco/). Bosco was an amazing “turner” an artist & artisan that using a mechanical lathe makes the most amazing things out of wood. To illustrate what is possible with 3D printing we usually point to examples such as “a ball in a ball” or other impossible shapes. But, Bosco has managed to create impossible shapes by hand and by using a lathe. The intricacy, sheer work & skill as well as the planning that goes into these things is incredible. Take some time to check out the site [here](http://pagesperso-orange.fr/robert.bosco/) where he has [stars inside polhedra,](http://pagesperso-orange.fr/robert.bosco/guidepolyedreen.htm) Stars [inside Dodecahedra](http://pagesperso-orange.fr/robert.bosco/dodecaedreetoileen.htm) and something called openwork stapled spheres that [blew my mind](http://pagesperso-orange.fr/robert.bosco/Spheresagrafesajouresen.htm).