Canon demonstrates printing with realistic and artistic textures

[HEXUS]

It reproduced an old painting complete with canvas textures and cracked paint.

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[mtyson]

[ValkyrieTsukiko]

As an artist, this sounds amazing and i hope the price isn't too out of reach (it will be initially but will hopefully drop to consumer price levels eventually).

[radication]

For more on 3d art reproduction look up Willemijn Elkhuizen's page at delft univ or similarly look at "Océ - 3D Fine Art Reproductions" on youtube. Oce being part of canon, I assume this current story is an extension of that earlier work.

[edzieba]

While I'm not sure how large the market for reproductions is, the integrated capture of surface colour, reflectance, contours, etc, would be a boon for texture creation for Physically Based Rendering.