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Title: Lithopane Photographs
Post by: joer on July 23, 2020, 10:46:52 PM

Prusa Printers published a process for making lithopane photographs and it works pretty well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IF5PAH7gs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IF5PAH7gs)

He uses a free online utility to convert a photo to an STL file.  The only setting he changes from the default setting is the thickness (2.4mm).  He then imports it into the slicer and inserts a color change at 1.55 mm.

I did a couple today with the lower section in black and the upper in vanilla white which makes the print look old.  They came out better than I expected.  Here's the original taken at Old Faithful and the lithopane:

Title: Re: Lithopane Photographs
Post by: Warburrito on September 15, 2020, 02:45:21 AM

Thanks for posting this out there.  I made my wife a birthday present using this info using a cheap light off the internet and then 3d molded a frame to connect them.  Ill poat up some pics if I ever make it home from work :P (my wifes birthday is today, so hopefully this shift will only be 30ish hours...ughhh) stupid Dell servers!

Title: Re: Lithopane Photographs
Post by: Warburrito on September 16, 2020, 01:12:12 PM

Here's how it turned out.  She seemed to like it.