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Modulated Extrusion for Textured 3D Printing
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2015.31.1.art00038_1  Published OnlineJanuary 2015
Abstract

This research utilises a Fused Deposition Modelling 3D Printer to investigate the aesthetics of 3D printing and it's broader applications. The presented research re-evaluates the 3D printer as a tool to manipulate materials, as opposed to a machine that discretely reproduces digital models at a fine resolution. The research questions the utility of automation, and attempts to find a level that permits materially expressive modes of fabrication. The exploration of aesthetics has uncovered a variety of unexpected textures and interesting material properties that may have wider use. For instance, rigid plastic has been extruded and manipulated finer than the extrusion nozzle diameter, which confers flexibility and fabric like qualities to the printed object. The discovered techniques for 3D printed aesthetics are reproducibly reliable and can be incorporated back into orthodox digital-model driven fabrication.

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Paul O'Dowd, Stephen Hoskins, Peter Walters, Adrian Geisow, "Modulated Extrusion for Textured 3D Printingin Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication (NIP31),  2015,  pp 173 - 178,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2015.31.1.art00038_1

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