MIT's CSAIL Develops Color-Changing 3D Printable Ink

摘要

While new methods, designs, and options for 3D printing proliferate weekly, most of the breakthroughs apply to objects before they're printed. Once an object is already printed, changes mandate reprinting. For color changes, at least, that may be about to change. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a process called ColorMod, a method for repeatedly changing the colors of 3-D printed objects after fabrication. The process' development was presented in a paper authored by Stefanie Mueller, the X-Consortium Career Development Assistant Professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, postdoc Parinya Punpongsanon, undergraduate Xin Wen, and researcher David Kim.