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Artist Luke Jerram has converted a seismogram of the devastating earthquake(http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-03/11/japan-earthquake-nuclear-reactors) that took place inJapan in March into a 3D-printed sculpture.The seismogram charts nine minutes of the earthquake in its varying intensities. The graph was rotatedusing computer-aided design to create a 3D image and then 3D-printed using rapid prototypingtechnology. The piece -- called the Tohuko Japanese Earthquake Sculpture(http://www.lukejerram.com/projects/t%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake) -- is 30 cm long and 20 cm wide.This is not the first time that Jerram has created a sculptural representation of a catastrophe -- he hasalso created a piece based on a sound file of the Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion(http://www.lukejerram.com/projects/28_seconds_hiroshima).Other projects include his hot air balloon-based Sky Orchestra(http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-07/25/sky-orchestra) and a ring that he gave to his wife fortheir anniversary that doubled as a tiny projector (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-07/22/projector-ring).The piece will be on show at the Terra exhibition(http://www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/page/3096/Jerwood+Encounters) at Jerwood Visual Arts from 9November to 11 December.

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