{"id":1026,"date":"2021-03-24T18:03:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2021-03-24T18:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:03:03","slug":"3d-printed-lithophane-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2021\/03\/3d-printed-lithophane-art\/","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed lithophane &#8220;art&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I first saw examples of 3D-printed lithophanes, I thought it was a great development of the technology for uses that may not have been originally intended. Lithophanes have a long history, predating all of our high-tech methods.<br><br>https:\/\/itslitho.com\/itslitho-blog\/one-of-the-most-unusual-artworks-from-the-early-19th-century-the-history-of-lithophane\/<br><br>But some of the articles I read at first said that doing them with PLA via FDM was impractical, and you&#8217;d really need SLA for the increased accuracy and complexity available. But then I recently started finding articles that showed examples with quality white PLA, so I tried it. Sure enough, it&#8217;s fantastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s ridiculously easy to get quality results.  Just upload your image to https:\/\/3dp.rocks\/lithophane\/ and it will make an STL for you. Here&#8217;s the tutorial I used:<br><br>https:\/\/sovol3d.com\/blogs\/news\/tutorial-how-to-print-lithophane-on-your-3d-printer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho1-scaled-350x263.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Lithophane as printed , still on print bed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho2-scaled-350x263.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Same lithophane held up to a light source.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw examples of 3D-printed lithophanes, I thought it was a great development of the technology for uses that may not have been originally intended. Lithophanes have a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2021\/03\/3d-printed-lithophane-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3D-printed lithophane &#8220;art&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/litho2-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}