Computing and Fabricating Multilayer Models

 

We present a method for automatically converting a digital 3D model into a multilayer model: a parallel stack of high-resolution 2D images embedded within a semi-transparent medium.

December 12, 2011
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011

 

Authors

Michael Holroyd (Disney Research/University of Virginia)

Ilya Baran (Disney Research)

Jason Lawrence (University of Virginia)

Wojciech Matusik (Disney Research/MIT CSAIL)

Computing and Fabricating Multilayer Models

Abstract

Multilayer models can be produced quickly and cheaply and provide a strong sense of an object’s 3D shape and texture over a wide range of viewing directions. Our method is designed to minimize visible cracks and other artifacts that can arise when projecting an input model onto a small number of parallel planes, and avoid layer transitions that cut the model along important surface features. We demonstrate multilayer models fabricated with glass and acrylic tiles using commercially available printers.

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