While waiting on the printer I have been writing software to convert photo’s to 3d-prints. Here a first result, they are best viewed with light coming from behind.
As this is a try out, this photo is converted with low density, only 2 dots (triangles) per mm. Pushing that up to 10 dots per mm (or even higher) is no problem, just creates bigger files, taking longer (too long) to proces in Z-suite.
I am still working things out with meshlab to reduce the number of triangles after rendering.
Alas the solid or full print option in Z-suite gives a little raster inside, would be happy if solid is really solid, that would give beter results.
The size is quite small 90x50 mm. I am now printing one which is 180x100mm with higher dpi: 4pdi.
This will be a birthday-gift. Guess the people around will know for years that I bought a 3D-printer
The code I made was actually what I call a Z-deformable shape to allow me to create complex, double curved and accurate forms using Java programming language. Later I found that by adding just a few lines of code i could make lithopanes aswell.
Here an example of what I created with the Z-Deformable shape: a toy traintunnel with just 30 lines of Java. I did not try to print things like this yet, but that will come.
