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Generating 3D Objects from Heightfields

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guru
Created on Mar 28, 2010

This is the result of a little processing sketch i wrote. It takes any
bitmap heightfields like the one in the images and turns it into a stl file
that can be printed on a makerbot

local-guru.net/blog/2010/03/28/generating-3d-objects-from-heightfields

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Generating 3D Objects from Heightfields by guru is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.

© 2010 by guru

Instructions

download and run the processing sketch from my blog post,
scale and rotate the stl object in blender
let blender remove the doublicate vertices to simplify the mesh
slice it using skeinforge
and print it on your 3D-Printer

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3D Printer

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