Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing
3D printing technology is a powerful tool for manufacturing complex shapes with high-quality textures. Gloss, next to color and shape, is one of the most salient visual aspects of an object. Unfortunately, printing a wide range of spatially-varying gloss properties using state-of-the-art 3D printers...
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| author | Piovarci, Michal Foshey, Michael Babaei, Vahid Rusinkiewicz, Szymon Matusik, Wojciech Didyk, Piotr |
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| description | 3D printing technology is a powerful tool for manufacturing complex shapes with high-quality textures. Gloss, next to color and shape, is one of the most salient visual aspects of an object. Unfortunately, printing a wide range of spatially-varying gloss properties using state-of-the-art 3D printers is challenging as it relies on geometrical modifications to achieve the desired appearance. A common post-processing step is to apply off-the-shelf varnishes that modify the final gloss. The main difficulty in automating this process lies in the physical properties of the varnishes which owe their appearance to a high concentration of large particles and as such, they cannot be easily deposited with current 3D color printers. As a result, fine-grained control of gloss properties using today's 3D printing technologies is limited in terms of both spatial resolution and the range of achievable gloss. We address the above limitations and propose new printing hardware based on piezo-actuated needle valves capable of jetting highly viscous varnishes. Based on the new hardware setup, we present the complete pipeline for controlling the gloss of a given 2.5 D object, from printer calibration, through material selection, to the manufacturing of models with spatially-varying reflectance. Furthermore, we discuss the potential integration with current 3D printing technology. Apart from being a viable solution for 3D printing, our method offers an additional and essential benefit of separating color and gloss fabrication which makes the process more flexible and enables high-quality color and gloss reproduction. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1581572025-02-03T16:58:48Z Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing Piovarci, Michal Foshey, Michael Babaei, Vahid Rusinkiewicz, Szymon Matusik, Wojciech Didyk, Piotr Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 3D printing technology is a powerful tool for manufacturing complex shapes with high-quality textures. Gloss, next to color and shape, is one of the most salient visual aspects of an object. Unfortunately, printing a wide range of spatially-varying gloss properties using state-of-the-art 3D printers is challenging as it relies on geometrical modifications to achieve the desired appearance. A common post-processing step is to apply off-the-shelf varnishes that modify the final gloss. The main difficulty in automating this process lies in the physical properties of the varnishes which owe their appearance to a high concentration of large particles and as such, they cannot be easily deposited with current 3D color printers. As a result, fine-grained control of gloss properties using today's 3D printing technologies is limited in terms of both spatial resolution and the range of achievable gloss. We address the above limitations and propose new printing hardware based on piezo-actuated needle valves capable of jetting highly viscous varnishes. Based on the new hardware setup, we present the complete pipeline for controlling the gloss of a given 2.5 D object, from printer calibration, through material selection, to the manufacturing of models with spatially-varying reflectance. Furthermore, we discuss the potential integration with current 3D printing technology. Apart from being a viable solution for 3D printing, our method offers an additional and essential benefit of separating color and gloss fabrication which makes the process more flexible and enables high-quality color and gloss reproduction. 2025-02-03T16:58:46Z 2025-02-03T16:58:46Z 2020-11-26 2025-02-01T08:51:15Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 978-1-4503-8107-9 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/158157 Piovarci, Michal, Foshey, Michael, Babaei, Vahid, Rusinkiewicz, Szymon, Matusik, Wojciech et al. 2020. "Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing." ACM Transactions on Graphics, 39 (6). PUBLISHER_POLICY en https://doi.org/10.1145/3414685.3417850 ACM Transactions on Graphics Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. ACM application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery Association for Computing Machinery |
| spellingShingle | Piovarci, Michal Foshey, Michael Babaei, Vahid Rusinkiewicz, Szymon Matusik, Wojciech Didyk, Piotr Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing |
| title | Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing |
| title_full | Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing |
| title_fullStr | Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing |
| title_short | Towards Spatially Varying Gloss Reproduction for 3D Printing |
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