2-Tone Image Generator

2D Image Printer FunHave you ever wanted to make a 3d print of a picture? Have you ever wanted to make your favorite family portrait or headshot into a cartoon? Inspired by innovative efforts like the Relief Sculptor Maker and Make My Lithophane, I thought it would be fun to try and make a tool for making 2-tone prints of pictures with one background color and one foreground color. This differs from the variety of tools that use varying brightness to determine the height of a 3d printed surface, instead using a variety of mathematical/artisanal methods to find vibrant ways to render images using only 2 colors. Looking into the wide world of things (special shoutout to the YouTube channel of Acerola) I discovered that finding good ways to reduce images like this is difficult, and beyond the scope of image processing that tools like OpenSCAD or Bambu Lab’s Parametric Model Maker natively support. Because of this, I’ve made this model to support transforming your pictures into 2-dimension