Lithopane Photographs

[joer]

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



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:

[Warburrito]

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 (my wifes birthday is today, so hopefully this shift will only be 30ish hours...ughhh) stupid Dell servers!

[Warburrito]

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