An Introduction to Shape-from-Shading 3D Reconstruction

Shape-from-shading (SFS) is a computer vision technique that draws upon light and shadow patterns to reconstruct an object's ...
Hackaday

Reverse Engineering STL Files With FreeCAD

If you think about it, STL files are like PDF files. You usually create them using some other program, export them, and then ...
Hackaday

A Toolchanging Inverse SCARA 3D Printer

There are some times when a picture, or better yet a video, really is worth a thousand words, and [heinz]’s dual-disk polar ...
VoxelMatters

New CU Boulder research advances multiple material 3D printing

New CU Boulder research advances multiple material 3D printing - using functions and code to map different materials in a 3D ...
Knowridge Science Report

New open-source software revolutionizes 3D printing with multiple materials

A new open-source software tool is changing the way engineers design and print complex 3D objects. Developed at the University of Colorado Boulder, the program—called OpenVCAD—lets users easily design ...
Fabbaloo

MIT Researchers Develop Generative CAD System Optimized for 3D Printing Constraints

Researchers have developed a generative CAD system specifically for 3D printing. Generative CAD tools have been around for several years, and they are fun to use. They’re quite different from normal ...