This 3-D printer doesn’t gloss over the details – Tech Xplore

Shape, color, and gloss.
Those are an object’s three most salient visual features. Currently, 3-D printers can reproduce shape and color reasonably well. Gloss, however, remains a challenge. That’s because 3-D printing hardware isn’t designed to deal with the different viscosities of the varnishes that lend surfaces a glossy or matte look.
MIT researcher Michael Foshey and his colleagues may have a solution. They’ve developed a combined hardware and software printing system that uses off-the-shelf…

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