14 DAY TRIAL // Books aren't the sort of thing you'd expect to see 3D printed, assuming they'll even survive the digitization craze. However, it has happened.
A man by the name of Tom Burtonwood has created the Folium, a book whose pages are actually individually 3D-printed pieces of art.
The cover and table of contents are written in braille, the touch-based written language of the blind or otherwise visually-challenged men and women.
However, the actual pages are bas-relief sculptures depicting things like Boddha's Footprints (from second century India), a portrait of George Washington (from the nineteenth century), and a panel designed by Louis Sullivant, among other things.
The Catch and Recap photogrammetry in Autodesk's software was used to create the 3D models of the pages (there are nine in total by the way).
You don't even need to buy it if you want it for yourself. The product isn't being marketed, you see. Instead, it has been released under a Creative Commons License, meaning that if you have a 3D printer (or a 3D printing service nearby), you can just download the files and have them made yourself.
Of course, depending on how good (or bad) your 3D printer is, your pages might turn out a lot more wrinkly than the ones in the attached pictures.
