Gallery: Look at This Lady's Amazing 3-D Printed Selfie
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The first known selfie was sent in 1914, but designer Lorna Barnshaw is bringing a futuristic dimension to the process by creating self-portrait sculptures with 3-D printers. *Photo: Lorna Barnshaw*
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The 3-D scanned image before printing. *Photo: Lorna Barnshaw*
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"I wanted to see how easy it was to replicate a small part of myself using only accessible tools and devices," says Barnshaw. *Photo: Lorna Barnshaw*
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Barnshaw used a variety of tools to create her sculptures: [Autodesk’s 123D Catch](http://www.123dapp.com/catch) app, a [Creaform 3-D scanner](http://www.creaform3d.com/en), a web-based video processing tool called [Cubify Capture](http://cubify.com/products/capture/), and a ZCorp 3-D printer. *Photo: Lorna Barnshaw*
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"We're naturally drawn to the human face but these generated copies seem so forbidding," says Barnshaw. "They are more like death masks or discarded experiments." *Photo: Lorna Barnshaw*
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"I was always shocked when someone asked who the subjects of the models were," says Barnshaw. "The faces varied so much they became their own separate identities." *Photo: Lorna Barnshaw*
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"The sculptures aren’t designed to be ornaments but instead a trace of my existence, a trace of my digital self," says Barnshaw. *Photo: Lorna Barnshaw*
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"With 3-D printers, we are no-longer limited by our screens, the digital world begins to merge and integrate itself into physical existence," says Barnshaw. *Photo: Lorna Barnshaw*
