{"id":531,"date":"2015-04-09T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T00:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2024-05-01T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T22:29:36","slug":"3d-printed-lithophanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/3d-printed-lithophanes\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printed Lithophanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I first saw a lithophane in a YouTube video I have thought they were really cool.\u00a0 I have made cylindrical lithophanes previously with my CNC machine.\u00a0 When I bought my 3D printer I thought I would give printing lithophanes a shot.\u00a0 I tried working lithophanes into Christmas ornaments with marginal success <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/lithophane-christmas-bulbs\/\">(See some of the ornaments here)<\/a>.\u00a0 After a little refining I printed some pictures on a cylinder and a night light cover.\u00a0 I removed the original night light cover and replaced it with a 3D printed version.\u00a0 The nightlight worked out well since it was a purposeful back light for the lithophane.\u00a0 Below are some pictures of the results.\u00a0 The cylinder is back lit by a battery operated tea light candle (the pictures are the front and back of the same cylinder).\u00a0 I spent a bunch of time making the STL file only to find that there are utilities that other people have made available for making cylindrical lithophanes.\u00a0 Here is a link to one I found on Thingiverse: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:539619\">Customizable Cylinder Lithophane Lamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/augie_in_box-e1428627542290.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-535 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/augie_in_box-e1428627542290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/auggie_in_tree-e1428627528380.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-536 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/auggie_in_tree-e1428627528380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/night_light-e1428627507917.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-537 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/night_light-e1428627507917.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I first saw a lithophane in a YouTube video I have thought they..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}