> If it ended up being a utilitarian 'boring' construction then there would be no point in 3D printing it in the first place.
There's a great deal of point to it - saving money in material and fabrication costs.
There's a great deal of point to it - saving money in material and fabrication costs.
This is a technology demonstration, not an example of super high efficiency. It also took much longer to make than it would have taken to make it in a more traditional way.
That said it still came in rather competitive compared to the alternatives, which says quite a bit about how manufacturers of such structures normally charge.