Methods and systems for photocuring liquid with reduced heat generation using a digital light processing (dlp) light source

A method, comprising:

• projecting, via a digital light processing (DLP) light source, light towards an opening in a tank containing photo-curable liquid resin;
• filtering, by a mask, the light from the DLP light source, the mask having pixels configurable to be individually transparent or opaque to portions of the light projected from the DLP light source;
• in a build area of the tank, curing the photo-curable liquid resin with the filtered light from the DLP light source so as to form a layer of a partially formed object;
• and
• at a time instance, (i) transmitting from a controller a light pattern with a high intensity portion and a low intensity portion to the DLP light source, and (ii) transmitting from the controller a mask pattern with a transparent portion and an opaque portion to the mask,
• wherein a shape of a boundary of the high intensity portion resembles a shape of a boundary of the transparent portion.