A team from New York’s Columbia University has managed to replicate the internal and external structure and appearance of timber using a 3D printer, which researchers say is confirmed when the block is cut or broken.
A study called “Digital Wood: 3D Internal Color Texture Mapping” has been published by academic journal 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, and explores a voxel printing technique that is described as an “unexplored 3D printing process that allows controlling the colour and material structure at every resolvable point of a printed object”.
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