Nativity Lithophane

My wife collects nativity scenes. I wanted to make her something special and different for Christmas this year. So I was thinking a lithophane. I searched the internet for some images and the traditional ones just didn’t seems to do it. Then I found this amazing picture that I believe is from the movie “The Nativity Story. 2006: The Virgin Mary, Joseph and the birth of Jesus Christ”. What I liked about it was it showed real people portraying the holy family. Mary and Jesus in a bask of light, but it also showed Joseph, leaning in, caring and in awe of the miracle.

I used http://www.3dp.rocks/lithophane/ to convert the picture to a lithophane. Settings I used; Maximum Size 100 mm. Thickness 3mm, border 2mm. Positive image. Oh, and set your infill to 100%! Very important. The rest I used the default settings.


I wanted to have a container to show off this image and to see if not only I could design a unique box, but to see if my printer would be able to print it. It has a