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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2017
Xyzprinting, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Kinpo Electronics, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Shih-Sen Hsieh, New Taipei, TW;
XYZPRINTING, INC., New Taipei, TW;
KINPO ELECTRONICS, INC., New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A method of slicing and printing multi-color 3D object includes following steps of: executing a path-slicing process to a coordinate information of a multi-color 3D object () to generate a plurality of path data; generating a plurality of continuous-tone images according to a color information of the multi-color 3D object (); calculating a plurality of dithering masks according to a plurality of displacement values and an initial mask; generating a plurality of halftone images according to each dithering mask and the same-layer continuous tone image; and, controlling a modeling nozzle () of a multi-color 3D printer () to print a plurality of printing slices (S-S) according to each path data layer by layer and controlling a coloring nozzle () of the multi-color 3D printer () to color each of printed printing slice (S-S) according to the same-layer halftone image.