The Science of the Thingiverse Design Remix

[Clare S]

Four researchers from Germany decided to explore the online design platform Thingiverse and determine just where all of the designs came from, and recently published a scientific article about what they discovered under a Creative Commons license, so anyone can read and use its contents.. They investigated how Thingiverse users are able to reuse existing designs to make new ones - this is known in the 3D printing community as remixing. The researchers investigated four different aspects of the remixing practice, in order to form a set of "theoretical propositions and managerial implications." Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/185160/thingivers...sign-remixing/

[curious aardvark]

The paper shows that remixing is a vitally important part of the success of Thingiverse, as over half of its available designs are based in remixes.

Not something I'd previously considered.
But I've done a few I guess.
Put more original designs up than remixes.

Wouldn't have put it as vitally important though. But hey, that's what academics are for :-)