ColorMod: Demonstration of Recoloring 3D Printed Objects using Photochromic Inks
Recent research has shown how to change the color of existing objects using photochromic materials. These materials can switch their appearance from transparent to colored when exposed to light of a certain wavelength. The color remains active even when the object is removed from the light source. T...
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| author | Punpongsanon, Parinya Wen, Xin Kim, David S. Mueller, Stefanie |
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| description | Recent research has shown how to change the color of existing objects using photochromic materials. These materials can switch their appearance from transparent to colored when exposed to light of a certain wavelength. The color remains active even when the object is removed from the light source. The process is fully reversible allowing users to recolor the object as many times as they want. So far, these systems were limited to single color changes (i.e. transparent to colored). We present ColorMod, a method to accomplish multi-color changes (e.g., red-to-yellow). We achieve this using a multi-color pattern with one color per voxel across the surface of the object. When recoloring the object, our system locally activates only those voxels that have the desired color and turns all other voxels off. We describe Color Mod ’s hardware/software system and its user interface. The user interface comes with a conversion tool for 3D printing and a painting tool for matching physical voxels with the desired appearance. We also provide our own material formula for a 3D-printable photochromic ink. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1214482022-09-23T12:29:44Z ColorMod: Demonstration of Recoloring 3D Printed Objects using Photochromic Inks Punpongsanon, Parinya Wen, Xin Kim, David S. Mueller, Stefanie Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Recent research has shown how to change the color of existing objects using photochromic materials. These materials can switch their appearance from transparent to colored when exposed to light of a certain wavelength. The color remains active even when the object is removed from the light source. The process is fully reversible allowing users to recolor the object as many times as they want. So far, these systems were limited to single color changes (i.e. transparent to colored). We present ColorMod, a method to accomplish multi-color changes (e.g., red-to-yellow). We achieve this using a multi-color pattern with one color per voxel across the surface of the object. When recoloring the object, our system locally activates only those voxels that have the desired color and turns all other voxels off. We describe Color Mod ’s hardware/software system and its user interface. The user interface comes with a conversion tool for 3D printing and a painting tool for matching physical voxels with the desired appearance. We also provide our own material formula for a 3D-printable photochromic ink. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (grant number 16J00049) 2019-06-28T14:38:42Z 2019-06-28T14:38:42Z 2018-04 2019-06-27T18:22:16Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978--4503-5620-6 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121448 Punpongsanon, Parinya, Xin Wen, David S. Kim and Stefanie Mueller. "ColorMod: Demonstration of Recoloring 3D Printed Objects using Photochromic Inks." In Proceeding of 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 21-26, 2018, Montréal, QC, Canada. en 10.1145/3170427.3186507 Proceedings of CHI ’18 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Punpongsanon, Parinya Wen, Xin Kim, David S. Mueller, Stefanie ColorMod: Demonstration of Recoloring 3D Printed Objects using Photochromic Inks |
| title | ColorMod: Demonstration of Recoloring 3D Printed Objects using Photochromic Inks |
| title_full | ColorMod: Demonstration of Recoloring 3D Printed Objects using Photochromic Inks |
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| title_full_unstemmed | ColorMod: Demonstration of Recoloring 3D Printed Objects using Photochromic Inks |
| title_short | ColorMod: Demonstration of Recoloring 3D Printed Objects using Photochromic Inks |
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