#PrinAPicture print's your picture (in 3D) ##This program will create a STL file from your picture!

How to use:

• Download the program and extract it
• Put a JPG picture in the program folder PrintAPicture-master/PrintAPicture and name it input.jpg
• Run it in Processing
• Decrease or increase the resolution with the resolution + and - buttons
• Change the maximum z-height with the max z-height + and - buttons
• Inverse the z-axis with the inverse z button
• Change the variable used by clicking one of the variable buttons (you can choose hue, saturation, brightness, red, green or blue)
• Scale the model up or down with the scale + and - buttons
• Rotate the model to take a better look with the right mouse button
• Save the STL file with the save button
• Print the thing.stl file!

The TestImage program makes the image that is the default input.jpg, it looks like this:

I've done some tests with a picture of me, so far these are the results:

The reason part of the image is missing is because I had to scale the model way down. Right now the program makes a huge model (I had to use an ASCII to binary converter to get it to load), so when you scale it down part of the model gets to thin to print. Of course you can fix this by scaling it up in the z-axis, so that's what I did for the second test.

This looks better I think, but with the backlight it would work better if the z-axis was inverted.