SLIC3D
is a fully 3D-printed book that explores and documents the 3D-printing process beyond its immediate use case for rapid-prototyping/object manufacturing; re-examining the material properties of a ‘book’. The book introduces the concept of tomographic design, which involves viewing 3D-printing slices as tomograms and exploring their potential applications in mark-making. Part of hyperpress.
Envisioned as TPU loose-leaves in a bound format, SLIC3D reimagines pages of a book as slices of a designed (printed) object and explores additive printing in place of traditional planographic processes. By manipulating the slicer software’s parameters/settings and physical interventions during the print process, graphics were created using open-source 3D models and the software’s generative support forms. (Credits — File/set-up assistance: Vu Long, Nigel Tan & Chloe Tan)