Until now 3D images on the printed form required special glasses to view them or when viewed with the naked eye, the material printed does not change smoothly along with the changes in viewpoint. A Japanese development team announced a new 3D printing technology, "DynaCube 3D," to enable 3D representations with depth that can be recognized by the naked eye. In this 3D printing technique, images viewed from different angles are separately printed. Therefore, the resultant image does not change smoothly along with the changes in viewpoint. Dai Nippon Printing plans to improve the technology so that it can be applied to images of people and 3D computer graphics in larger sizes. This lets the images visible from several angles appear solid. In this way, light similar to that reflected on the objects in real space can be seen regardless of viewing angle, resulting in natural-looking 3D representation.

Dai Nippon Printing and the Takaki Lab in Japan developed this new printing technology, the shooting cost for 100 copies of 550 x 450mm prints is approx US$5,164 or higher while the production cost is much higher.

Via