If you wanted to make a rotating display box, what would you use to make it spin? A servo? A stepper motor? [ChrisN219] didn’t need his to move quickly by any means, and this opened up his options to ...

Although the lithophane is an ancient artistic medium, it has never been used to represent scientific data and imagery in a quantitative, controlled manner for tactile visualization and tactile ...

Bryan F. Shaw, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Baylor University, assists high-school students from the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired with chemistry experiments in ...

Cast iron oil lamp with lithophane porcelain inserts (1860–79) (Museum Catharijneconvent, via Wikimedia) Imperceptible in the light, only when illuminated by flame in the dark is a 19th-century ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Before photography, there was the lithophane. It’s a thin slice of ...

3D printing lithophanes is where you turn 2D images into 3D models, which, when you 3D print and backlit, it reveals the image. To create a lithophane, you begin by uploading a photo to a lithophane ...

Lithophanes are artistic creations which rely on the varying thickness of a material that is then backlit to reveal an image. While these were often made in porcelain in the past, these days we have ...

WACO, Texas (Aug. 17, 2022) – A research team led by Baylor University chemists has taken a groundbreaking step forward in eliminating the exclusion of individuals with blindness from chemistry ...