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Journal Articles ACM Transactions on Graphics Year : 2019

Colored fused filament fabrication

Haichuan Song
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Jonàs Martínez

Abstract

Fused filament fabrication is the method of choice for printing 3D models at low cost and is the de-facto standard for hobbyists, makers, and schools. Unfortunately, filament printers cannot truly reproduce colored objects. The best current techniques rely on a form of dithering exploiting occlusion, that was only demonstrated for shades of two base colors and that behaves differently depending on surface slope. We explore a novel approach for 3D printing colored objects, capable of creating controlled gradients of varying sharpness. Our technique exploits off-the-shelves nozzles that are designed to mix multiple filaments in a small melting chamber, obtaining intermediate colors once the mix is stabilized. We apply this property to produce color gradients. We divide each input layer into a set of strata, each having a different constant color. By locally changing the thickness of the stratum, we change the perceived color at a given location. By optimizing the choice of colors of each stratum, we further improve quality and allow the use of different numbers of input filaments. We demonstrate our results by building a functional color printer using low cost, off-the-shelves components. Using our tool a user can paint a 3D model and directly produce its physical counterpart, using any material and color available for fused filament fabrication.
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hal-01660621 , version 1 (19-04-2022)

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Haichuan Song, Jonàs Martínez, Pierre Bedell, Noemie Vennin, Sylvain Lefebvre. Colored fused filament fabrication. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2019, 38 (5), pp.1-11. ⟨10.1145/3183793⟩. ⟨hal-01660621⟩
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