Advancing the 3D printing industry with temporarily-viewable content, including advertisements, sculptures, indicia, and dynamically-changing presentations

A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object configured to include a display of temporarily-viewable indicia, the three-dimensional object constructed through an additive manufacturing system, the additive manufacturing system comprised of a 3D printer, a computer processor, an additive manufacturing material, and an input interface configured, at least in part, to detect inputs, the method comprising:

• a. detecting, by the input interface, an object-build input;
• b. performing, by the computer processor, a first build operation caused by the detecting of the object-build input, the first build operation configured to implement the 3D printer to transform a part of the additive manufacturing material into an unfinished build of the three-dimensional object;
• c. constructing, by the 3D printer, the unfinished build of the three-dimensional object using the part of the additive manufacturing material, with the unfinished build including the display of temporarily-viewable indicia, and with the display of temporarily-viewable indicia displayed, to a user, on a visible layer of the unfinished build of the three-dimensional object;
• d. performing, by the computer processor, a second build operation caused by the detecting of the object-build input, the second build operation configured to implement the 3D printer to transform an additional part of the additive manufacturing material into a covering layer, with the covering layer configured to conceal from the user the display of temporarily-viewable content;
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• e. constructing, by the 3D printer, the covering layer of the three-dimensional object using the additional part of the additive manufacturing material, concealing from the user the display of temporarily-viewable indicia;
• f. wherein the display of temporarily-viewable indicia is configured to be visible at least in part to provide information to the user during at least a portion of construction of the three-dimensional object.

An additive manufacturing system for constructing a three-dimensional object configured to include a display of temporarily-viewable content, the three-dimensional object configured to be constructed using an additive manufacturing material, the additive manufacturing system comprising:

• a. an input interface capable of detecting an object-build input;
• b. a non-transitory computer storage medium capable of storing, and making available for retrieval, an object-build data set;
• c. a computer processor capable of performing a build operation caused by the detecting of the object-build input, the build operation configured to retrieve and process the object-build data set in order to transform a first part of the additive manufacturing material into an unfinished build of the three-dimensional object and to transform a second part of the additive manufacturing material into a covering layer;
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• d. a 3D printer being capable of constructing the unfinished build of the three-dimensional object from the first part of the additive manufacturing-material, with the unfinished build being capable of including the display of temporarily-viewable content, and with the display of temporarily-viewable content able to be displayable on a visible layer of the unfinished build of the three-dimensional object, the 3D printer further being capable of constructing the covering layer using the second part of the additive manufacturing material, with the covering layer being capable of subsequently visually concealing the display of temporarily-viewable content;
• e. wherein the display of temporarily-viewable content is capable of being visible during at least a portion of construction of the three-dimensional object and prior to concealment by the covering layer.