Hi, can anyone advise which printers are able to accept a binary image sequence as their input? I need to bypass the surface creation stage entirely. For further information to put this in context: I have datasets that exist as a sequence of images recorded using a technique known as ‘serial block-face scanning electron microscopy’. This involves cutting away layers of an object using a diamond knife, and recording an image of each slice in an electron microscope. These datasets can be quite large, a typical example being 3000 images of dimension 3000 x 3000 pixels, and I will typically process this to ‘segment’ the structure(s) of interest so that they are represented by white pixels and everything else is black. The one thing that is very difficult to do with these datasets is to construct a topologically correct surface, which is required for most printers. The other limiting factors are computational requirements, and the poly-count of the resulting file. Anyway, as stated previously, I need to bypass the surface creation entirely, and feed a sequence of images into the printer. Any comments appreciated! Edit: I should add that the makers of the titan1 - Kudo3D claim their printer can do this. I am looking for alternatives, or even verification of this. Thanks!
