Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Before photography, there was the lithophane. It’s a thin slice of ...

Although the lithophane is an ancient artistic medium, it has never been used to represent scientific data and imagery in a quantitative, controlled manner for tactile visualization and tactile ...

Question: When my late father traveled to Germany in 1968 he brought back this German beer stein. What is interesting about it is the transparent picture on the bottom of a naked lady that shows up ...

If you had asked us yesterday “How do you 3D Print a Photo”, we would have said “well, that’s easy, do a lithophane”– but artist, hacker and man with a very relaxing voice [Wyatt Roy] has a much more ...