Produces "lenticular" models from black and white image pairs. The pixels of each image are presented as the left and right faces of a series of ridges, so that one image is seen when you view the object from the left and the other from the right. Intended to take advantage of the Makerbot 2x’s dual extruders by printing the "black" and "white" portions as interlocking perforated layers.
Here is the output of rog -h:
Usage: rog [OPTIONS] LEFT RIGHT OUTPUT
The LEFT and RIGHT arguments specify the paths to the input images, which
must have the same dimensions. Grayscale images will be interpreted as black
and white according to the -t option. Color images will be read as grayscale
images according to an intermediate luminance conversion (0.3R 0.59G 0.11B).
Supported image formats include PNG, GIF, and [non-progressive] JPG.
The OUTPUT argument specifies the base output path; output will consist of
two STL files, named OUTPUT-white.stl and OUTPUT-black.stl.
OPTIONS (DEFAULT):
-a THICKNESS (0.25) Bottom layer (white base) thickness.
-b THICKNESS (0.25) Middle layer (black base) thickness.
-c THICKNESS (0.5) Top layer (image ridges) thickness.
-s SCALE (1.0) Scaling factor applied to x/y coordinates.
-t THRESHOLD (155) Brightness values > THRESHOLD considered white.
-f (off) Output ASCII format STL instead of binary.
-o (off) Locate origin at bottom left of image instead of center.
-h (off) Display this help message and quit.
The examples folder contains two test cases, tiny and face.
The STL files were produced with the default options. For example:
./rog examples/face-left.jpg examples/face-right.jpg examples/face
The above command produces examples/face-white.stl and examples/face-black.stl,
which together form the ridged surface displayed from different angles in this
composite image:
Images are loaded using Sean Barrett's public domain stb_image.c library.
Ridge-o-gram is freely distributed under an open source MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.