Towards a Conceptual Notion for a Universal Printing Machine

摘要

This work is concerned with 3D printing. It's main goal is to establish a conceptualsetting in which the theory of 3D printing can be developed. Following the analogy that aUniversal Turing Machine, in a veryprecise and specific way, computes everything that is computable, we propose to the development for the notion of a Universal PrintingMachine. It is an abstract notion that will simulate any 3d printer, either in existence or to be invented. In theory, it canproduce anything which can be printed. In other words, we areproposing to develop a theoretical model of a 3d printer which will serveas a reference to the current and future developments in the area.