
High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00137-4
Fundamental issues for Additive Manufacturing of lithophanes
M. Yuan & D.L. Bourell
Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
ABSTRACT: A unique application of Additive Manufacturing (AM) is the reproduction of digital images
in translucent materials (lithophanes) which are illuminated by back lighting. The first step in AM lithophane
production is conversion of a digital image to a grayscale image. The grayscale level of each pixel is then
converted to an associated thickness. The thickness array is ...