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US 2004/0170807 A1Published application
Method for digitally creating lithephane-type images
AssigneeImage Pops, LLC
InventorsPeter Kelley, Joseph Mendillo, Patrick Pigott
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Abstract
A method and system for creating a lithophane-type image includes adjusting a 3-D representation of an electronically processed 2-D image based on light-transmission characteristics of a final material into which the lithophane-type image to be produced.
Claims20
A process for creating a lithophane-type work, comprising the steps of:
- selecting a 2-D image;
- converting the selected 2-D image into a 3-D representation thereof;
- and
- extrapolating a thickness and depth of the 3-D representation based on opacity and color of material into which the lithophane-type work will be produced.
1 more element
A system for creating a lithophane-type work comprising:
- a central processing unit (CPU), comprising:
- software executing on the CPU for selecting a 2-D image,
- software executing on the CPU for converting the selected 2-D image into a 3-D representation thereof;
- and
- software executing on the CPU for extrapolating a thickness of the 3-D representation of the selected 2-D image based on opacity and color of material of a final product to be sculpted with the lithophane-type work.
2 more elements
A article of manufacture comprising:
- a surface;
- and
- a lithophane-type work visible through the surface and having a thickness adjusted as a function of opacity of material from which the surface is made and a color of the material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.