Printed Painting - Experiment

You can use this technique on any FDM printer, reqiures one pause layer/color change.

I was earlier experimenting with very thin prints, when I noticed that I needed a few layers to cover up black plastic, which in turn gave me the idea to use this to print in gray-scale.

PRINT INSTRUCTIONS
0.1mm lay height
Start with a dark color. Use Post processing to put a pause in the layer just before the painting starts. And swap to a bright color.
Put a waste block cube, close the printer origo to avoid blobs from the color change.

MAKE YOUR OWN PAINTING
Create a gray scale image, where the background is black and the lines are white.
In Blender (3d modelling)
-create a plane
-Subdivide the plane about 25times.
-Use the Displacement Modifier with the image as texture. Set "midlevel: 0" and adjust strength until the peaks are about 0.4mm high.
-Apply the modifier.
-Extrude the plane to a cube.

OTHER NOTES
The displacement modifier can be messy to work with. I have consi