Halloween Lithophane - The Three Wise Skulls Litho

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I used 5 percent rectilinear infill, just wanted to correct the 10 percent which I wrote because I just realized 5 percent rectilinear infill lets more light through and makes the infill less visible. I would also suggest maybe trying two walls/perimeters instead of four if you want to use a weak light source. I haven't tried this yet so I don't know how it comes out. Please post a print if you make one with what settings you printed it with to help others decide how they want to print it. If using no supports there will be slight stringing directly under the lithophane which I don't see as a problem because it takes 1-2 minutes to get cleaned up. Update V2: The first layer is now flat. Here's a Halloween Litho I created. The three wise skulls and the Litho are my own STLs, which I made; the rest are things I downloaded from Thingiverse. I used Meshmixer to join all STLs together. Then I fixed the file in Netfabb. No supports needed at 0.1mm layer height. This file prints quite well without supports, even that hat prints without supports. Warning: Printing this at 0.2mm layer height might cause the hats not to print correctly; it's a very steep angle and hasn't been tested at 0.2mm. I used four walls/perimeters to make sure the litho was almost full; maybe it also looks great with less walls, but I haven't tested it yet. Print time: about 40 hours with 0.1mm layer height, five percent rectilinear infill, and four walls. Filament usage: about 400 grams. It can take much longer than 40 hours if printing slower.