Above and top / 3D printing has given lithophanes a new life , making them inexpensive to produce and easy to create . Here , Shaw and Cook work with a lithophane they printed in a lab at Baylor University .
“ The amazing thing about it is that if you ’ re studying in a group , a sighted student can hold the same lithophane up to a light and see exactly what the blind student is feeling .” — Hoby Wedler ,
chemist and educator
Above / Wedler holds a lithophane that shows the microscopic scales on a butterfly wing . Using the lithophane , students who are sighted and students who are blind or have low vision can visualize the same image .
PHOTOS ( TOP AND FAR LEFT ) BY DREW ANTHONY SMITH ; PHOTO ( RIGHT ) BY TIMOTHY ARCHIBALD
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