Brunton, AlanAlanBruntonUrban, PhilippPhilippUrban2023-09-202023-09-202023https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/45086710.1109/MCG.2023.3298173This article presents Cuttlefish, a 3-D printer driver developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD. Cuttlefish maximizes the reproduction quality of shape and appearance in multimaterial 3-D printing systems. It controls various printing systems and material sets, including color, transparent, and flexible materials. The article provides an overview of Cuttlefish’s graphical 3-D printing pipeline and focuses on its unique features: Displaced signed distance fields for robust voxelization of objects not designed for 3-D printing, joint color and translucency reproduction, accurate color and translucency characterization, shape dithering to eliminate quantization-based staircase artifacts, and support for displacement maps and constructive solid geometry operations. The article concludes by showcasing applications of Cuttlefish in printing replacement faces for stop-motion animation, large-scale figurine production, and prosthetic eye printing.enBranche: HealthcareBranche: Information TechnologyResearch Line: Computer graphics (CG)Research Line: Modeling (MOD)Branche: Bioeconomics and InfrastructureLTA: Generation, capture, processing, and output of images and 3D models3D-printingColorAppearanceBranche: Cultural und Creative EconomyBranche: Automotive IndustryBranche: Maritime Economyjournal article