The above image shows an excerpt from the 1995 Stratasys patent, covering the drawings of FDM layers, including brick layers. This covered all such ways of printing, but the patent expired in 2016.

[Slant 3D] knows a lot about optimizing 3D prints so that they can be cranked out reliably with minimal need for post-processing, and in this short video he uses a cube as a simple example of how a… ...

When working to replicate eel, the 3D printing technology allows for the meat’s ‘complex texture’ to be achieved through precision layering combined with a ‘unique’ combination of materials used ...

Experts have used CT scanning techniques to build up the first 3D pictures of these creatures, ... 3D mouth of an ancient jawless fish suggests they were filter-feeders, not scavengers or hunters ...