researchers have come up with a new way ofaccurately painting 3d printed objects while the 3d printing technology has developedin leaps and bounds over the past few years, painting printed objects has been held backby problems of how to colour complex patterns both accurately and efficiently. hydrographic printing is a well-known techniquein industry for transferring color inks on a thin film to the surface of a manufactured3d object. it enables high-quality coloring of object surfaces and works with a wide rangeof materials, but suffers from the inability to accurately register color texture to complexsurface geometries. thus, it is hardly usable by ordinary users with customized shapes andtextures. so, the traditional hydrographic
printing is mainly used for coloring 3d shapeswith repeated color patterns. now, researchers at zhejiang university andcolumbia university have found a way to precisely affix complex coloring to objects, makingthem look somewhat photo-real. they presented a new computational hydrographic printingmethod that inherits the versatility of traditional hydrographic printing, while also enablingprecise alignment of surface textures to possibly complex 3d surfaces computational hydrographic printing is a lotlike standard hydrographic printing except a 3d vision system like microsoft kinect itused to create a precise texture map. this texture map accurately predicts the stretchingbefore it happens and comes up with a film
design to counteract the distortion when dealing with complex surfaces, the teamhas extended their method to enable multiple
3d printed guitar for sale,immersions, each with a different object orientation,in order the combined colors of individual immersions could form a desired texture onthe object surface. this new method is cost-effective and canbe used on a range of materials, from plastic to porcelain.
