Wow a new toy! Going to try the humming bird. My wife loves them. We have tons of them in the garden.

Great overview! This software is incredibly fun to play around with :)

FWIW, there are multiple companies that offer filament that uses the RAL or Pantone colour systems, so you have a *HUGE* selection of colours to choose from and you can be sure that each roll will have *EXACTLY* the same colour and properties of the last, which is *really* important in a commercial venture.

@jmd1743

10 ай бұрын

Maybe Pantone should produce filament? If they keep things price competitive then they could become a standard filament makers benchmark against.

@KeithOlson

10 ай бұрын

@@jmd1743 That's not their business model. All they do is license their color system and let the money roll in.

This is one of those innovations that does seem really obvious, but somebody had to actually do it! Looks like they did a great job.

This is awesome software! I don't know if someone has created this before but this is exactly what type of tool I've been envisioning on having and wondering why it hasn't been done before. It's jumped me hours ahead of helping print some logos for my kids hockey team out of TPU!

Bought it to support the dev

Interested to see what metallic or glossy filaments look like. This would be very cool if you did it for kits though, like print every leaf of the sunflower and then apply heat to curl slightly making you end up with a pop up still image, or like the AT AT kit you can get and 3d print

Dude, your sunflower you made looks really really good and I think that's going to be the first one. I try because my wife loves sunflowers

This is truly brilliant! The first time I loaded white filament after having printed in red, and watched my extruder push a pinkish colour out as I purged the line, made me think why isn't there a print head that takes RGB (and perhaps white, black and grey) filaments in and has a slicer plugin to tune the mixing of them? This takes that same concept and achieves it in a new and elegant way! Fast printing, input shaping and perhaps 16 million colour printing? What an incredible time to be alive! :)

@timd9430

11 ай бұрын

RGB uses light. I.e. monitor, TV. (additive color) It would use CMYK, Cyan Magenta Yellow and blacK like traditional 4 color printing process (subtractive color). But ideally adding white and more colors or metallic or specialized colors, materials.

@chrisdixon5241

11 ай бұрын

@@timd9430 You're totally correct, I had the same thought after I wrote this and considered coming back to correct! It would be more like mixing paint / regular printing, and rely on subtractive primaries (Red, Blue, Yellow). Also lithophanes are traditionally printed vertically to gain more precision / detail so not sure how this affects resolution. Ultimately though it seems to be a fantastic idea, can't believe it hasn't been thought of before

@polycrystallinecandy

11 ай бұрын

There are mixing extruders (often called 2 in 1 out, or 3 in 1 out) and slicer plugins to adjust the mixing ratio. The problem with that approach is that molten plastic is super viscous, and instead of getting a nicely mixed flow, you get splotches of two colors.

@UltimatePerfection

11 ай бұрын

@@polycrystallinecandy Maybe it just needs a good stirring? Say, you add milk to the coffee. Initially milk is just a splotch of white, but when you stir it with a spoon, it mixes with the coffee.

@LuxurioMusic

10 ай бұрын

@@UltimatePerfection I think because of the way molten plastic flows, it would need a screw to be pushed through like how filament extruders work.

The Lost In Tech logo looks amazing with this method!

I've been working on similar software but it's way behind the quality this thing is putting out. The UI and polish on this deserves acclaim, doing edge detection and filament fill patterns in itself is quite complex. One thing that is not shown here is there's a limit to how small you can go and not smear pixels, I've yet to determine that limit. The tolerance will be very printer dependent.

Its amazing that this is a more recent development. Its such an ingenious yet obvious way to create multi color prints. I just picked it up today and after watching the tutorials its actually pretty easy to use! Im excited to get some prints going!

these are really cool, but it reminds me of the 3d printer boom around 8 years ago. There was several companies trying to 3d print food, like pizza and pancakes..... the 2D'est of foods :D

Looking great Impressive results ❤ Thanks for sharing your experience with All of us 👍😃

amazing, i want it to make board game tokens or textured d&d battle tiles.

Any consolation 🤣😂 Would be interesting to print some sci-fi vortex on one of those 40+cm printers and place it on the floor for guests to find.

This is incredible. Love how much use the 3D printers are getting because of developers like this.

That is what I was looking for! Thank you a million!

I seem to have lost interest in 3d printing the last couple months, but I saw this on Hackaday and I'm very excited to try it!

Great video on @hueforging well done.

That was an instant buy. how cool!

Good overview, this software is really promising!

This is fantastic , thank you for sharing

The sunflower turned out so beautiful

The timing on this is incredible! It's currently 2:22 a.m. and I've been struggling for over a year to find the perfect medium to complete a 90% finished gift for my father in memoriam to my great grandfather. I am very familiar with additive technology and CNC altogether, holding 26 certifications in manufacturing and currently working at a company building FDM machines myself; however, being only 18 yrs old, there are of course a number of esoteric manufacturing techniques ive yet to encounter. The closest I'd come to finding just the right solution was lithophanes, though something was telling me to hold off for a better one. Given that it was just fathers day, I've been contemplating this very issue since having woken up yesterday. This is it!

Dude, this is amazing! These are not just "multi color images" they have potential for printing paintings!

Thank you for this. I never knew this existed and will check it out. My FDM printer kinda got water issues, so it will be a while before I can try it, but it looks nice. I love how it seems to take into account the previous color translucency.

I bet this would work great with a Mosaic Palette Pro

Ok now use this with a diffraction gradient build surface to make bootleg Holographic trading cards

Interesting have to look into it More.

Einfach herrlich, Danke.

Of course we want the pickle.

Your channel has really got me lit

@teitgenengineering

10 ай бұрын

Like lost in tech initials

that is great!

Wonder of this is usible for on the las layer of a print. Could be amazing to use with text

wait.... how do u remove the back round thats so important lol

Second. But for real, I'm looking into doing this so ty bunches for a lovely introduction.

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

glad to be of assistance!

The software is great and is perfect for those people who get tons of free filament given to them lol. I'll be doing it the hard and expensive way 😅 HueForge for the win!

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

Haha, it doesnt use much filament though, I reckon we all need to try to hoard samples for this :)

I love it

People always seem to forget about the mosaic palette like it's not an option to make a printer multicolor

What about an extruder combined with a laser inkjet printer head? So you just use one color plastic (ideally white) and after each layer you lay down ink in whatever colors you want. No filament swapping needed.

@scottbaeder37

11 ай бұрын

Some one did this a while back. HARD to do well.

@chemistclips

11 ай бұрын

Someone had done a project using markers I believe. However, the finished prints lacked the ability to reproduce rich, deep colors with high contrast like is possible with the method in this video.

@CCaribou

11 ай бұрын

What is a laser inkjet printer?

@wr2740

5 ай бұрын

I think DaVinci had a 3d printer that tried that approach. No idea what happened to it.

If you do a followup vid. please discuss filament colors to use. We don't really have a great variety of hues. I havre a yellow and a blue. But neither are shades I would select if they were say watercolor or acrylic colors.

@KeithOlson

11 ай бұрын

FWIW, there are multiple companies that offer filament that uses the RAL or Pantone colour systems, so you have a *HUGE* selection of colours to choose from and you can be sure that each roll will have *EXACTLY* the same colour and properties of the last, which is *really* important in a commercial venture.

Can you also show the process of setting up yourslicer. Not for those with automatic color changing. Just a regular ender 3. Thanks.

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

I'll see if I have time to make one, I agree it would be a useful vid

@FilmFactry

11 ай бұрын

@@LostInTech3D You do a great job. I know I learn about these things way ahead of everyone else watching your channel!

Now I want someone to make Rick astley never gonna give you up in Pixel art, on the belt printer.

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

if I had a belt printer lol

@darknessblades

11 ай бұрын

@@LostInTech3D If you know someone that has one, you could ask if you can borrow it. it should also be possible to alter the G-code so the sound of the motors plays the song

Do you have a tutorial on how to match the colors to the image uploaded ? Ie if I pick a flower thats pick and yellow in the inside.. and select those colors for filament, it doesnt seem to put yellow where it is on the original picture and pink where it is on the original picture.

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

It's quite complicated but the one thing that helped me is that the sliders arent "in order", they will go from lowest to highest not left to right, and the height to colour ratio is set by the algorithm (I think default is "combo"). This is where, if you aren't getting what you want, you might need to mess with the contrast on the original image. I didn't want to get into it too much because I don't 100% get it either yet.

@user-rx6rj8ug6q

11 ай бұрын

@@LostInTech3D Thanks will try that!

@user-rx6rj8ug6q

11 ай бұрын

@@LostInTech3D I tried.. I guess it was not able to isolate the yellow portion in the middle of the flower as a seperate color in my case

did you buy the filaments in the library or did you add your own using the measurement device?

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

bit of both, but tbh it depends what you're making, you can sorta wing it or use the measurement device.

Going to be interesting, just got the limited commercial license version.

Minor comment (sorry for being a wise-ass): Other colours do "exist", but our eyes can only see three of them. The reason RGB screens work for us is because we have R, G and B receptors in our eyes, so our eyes cannot see a difference between, for example, a colour that is in between two colours or an equivalent mix of those two colours. Mixing those colours doesn't "create" a new colour, it is just a mix of those two, but it looks the same to our eyes as a solid colour that our receptors respond the same way to. For this reason, animals with different colour receptors would not see those colours on a print or screen the same way as we do. RGB (or CMYK) is tuned to our eyes.

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

Yeah badly worded, I was referring specifically to on the media like the phone screen 🤣 this is why I didn't want to explain colour theory lol

@spencerhanson7808

11 ай бұрын

Light of other colors can partially excite the rgb receptors of our eyes and the proportion of how excited those receptors are is the color we perceive. So we can make an rgb pixel that will present red, green, and blue in a way that will excite the receptors in the eye the same way that light of a certain wavelength would.

@Topy44

11 ай бұрын

@@spencerhanson7808 Yeah way better way of saying exactly what i meant :D

okej but: the filamental colores are nt cheaper and yes it open more than 1 filamental and drys out all at one tieme. all is open at all

There are loads of benefits to getting in on this software early beyond the early discount! I highly recommended it. 😊… then again my opinion doesn’t really mean much but you should check it out either way ❤.

That is clever and pretty amazing but I'm still too lazy to change filament haha. Looks amazing though

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

That's how I ended up using the AMS lol

this is how i've been designing my keychains for ten years already lol never thought to do multiple color swaps because im lazy

Dear Dev, please also build a Linux version!

@AlexSwavely

11 ай бұрын

The dev said there's plans for at least also a linux release, but it won't be during the "early access" stage.

@BloodyJMF

11 ай бұрын

What about Mac? Can we use this on real computers?

@Reikles09

11 ай бұрын

​@@BloodyJMF ahahaha xDD are you talking about linux or what?

@Reikles09

11 ай бұрын

Maybe it's possible to run it with wine under linux.

@elkromero6541

11 ай бұрын

I got it to run with wine 8.10, dotnet40, dotnet48, vcrun2017, dxvk and fetching two missing DLLs (Qt6Pdf.dll and Qt6Svg.dll) from a random github repository. Still would be nice to have it native, though.

i like this...

Windows only :(

@AlexSwavely

11 ай бұрын

For now. The dev said there's plans for at least also a linux release, but it won't be during the "early access" stage.

Is there any way to make them flat? For the mmu?

@LostInTech3D

3 ай бұрын

They're fine with the mmu as is

@Johneyap

3 ай бұрын

@@LostInTech3D it's not, I have a spot that needs white, and it can't do it, as it needs white below as well. Also I prefer flat photos, they look better. Is it possible or no? Doesn't seem to be possible. I guess back to svgs and inkscape I go

I just wipe paint on top. Similar effect. Lots faster.

so is all we need primary colour filaments?

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

Idk...maybe?

You said you would link to a tutorial in the description, but I don’t see that link.

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

It's the second link, in the hotmakes video, skip a few minutes in.

@geauxracerx

11 ай бұрын

@@LostInTech3D oh I was looking for a KZread link. I’m not smort

So now 3d printers are as good as printing as a 2d printer with a whole lot less pain than a 2d printer

You for get the voron color change that do up to 9 color

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

The enraged rabbit? I might make one at some point

@enmanuelhenriquez975

11 ай бұрын

@@LostInTech3D yes

"I don't want to get any deeper into color theory because I'll inevitably get it wrong." That's okay. You already did, and most people do anyway, one way or another, and everybody who has a different understanding of it goes and argues with everyone else.

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

lol!

there a free program out there??

@LostInTech3D

5 ай бұрын

not that does this

its not loading my images :( no idea what i am doing wrong

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

Resize them to smaller

I don´t really get this. I can also just print that stuff with a normal printer instead if it´s 2 dimensional anyways.

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

It's a different effect IRL

@sierraecho884

11 ай бұрын

@@LostInTech3D Okay alright. I find it super annoying to pause and start printing again. Also FDM is just a shitty way to solve this issue. Resin deposition printing is cool as heck but well at least 250k or so for the machine.

Where’s the pickle tho?

@LostInTech3D

8 ай бұрын

in the sewer somewhere

2d printing on a 3d printer

MAC OS pleaseeeee!!!!

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

Dev is working on it 👍

2D printing with a 3D printer

MAybe if I had an 8-color multifilament printer of some sort, otherwise that's way too many stops and starts and filament changes. ;D

Very weird licensing terms. Personal is for your use only. $30 a year to sell physical products only, for people like Etsy sellers. $80 a year to also sell the STLs. What if you just want to share them for free on printables? Do you need to pony up $80 a year? That's a pretty huge downside. It always sucks when sharing and collaboration is capitalism-ed out of a community.

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure you can share on printables, you would have to check the terms and probably use a CC-NC license, but I don't think that will be an issue.

Wow!! You can use your multi-hundred dollar 3D printer like a $20 2D printer! What an incredible use of technology 😂😂😂

25 - 300 Dollars for such a niche piece of software when most is free and opensource....

@LostInTech3D

10 ай бұрын

...go on?

What the…😮

This feels less like a helpful video and more like an advertisement...

@LostInTech3D

10 ай бұрын

It's a "heads up". I would never take money for something like this, so it's not an ad.

i hate changing filiament, so i am out^^

@LostInTech3D

11 ай бұрын

well, you could always get a material changer ;)

Too bad it can be only used to create flat prints, not actually color 3d prints. Might as well use a regular printer for that.