This New Method Cuts Color 3D Printing Time In Half!

Full color filament printing with a SINGLE. TOOL. CHANGE. PER. LAYER. Sounds impossible. But thanks to a new innovation, it’s very much a reality. In this video I discuss how.

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OraSlicer-ImageMap: https://github.com/sentientstardust-dev/OrcaSlicer-ImageMap.

Color Calibration Tool: https://gitlab.com/sentient_stardust/imagemap-calibration-tool

Overhang Modulation Research Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.01375

Contoning Research Paper: https://cdfg.mit.edu/publications/color-contoning-3d-printing

00:00 Intro
01:33 How It Works
04:25 Direct Printing of Full Color 3D Scans
05:58 Integration with Full Spectrum
06:50 Extrusion Width vs Perimeter Path Modulation
07:58 Image Projection
09:00 Top / Bottom Surface Coloring
10:16 Color Calibration
11:00 Recap: Everything It Can Do
11:35 Limitations
12:25 Snapmaker U1 Giveaway
13:33 Outro

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