Lenticular Resources for 3D Hobbyists

Lenticular imaging is a creative hobby that requires some knowledge of digital photography and imaging (plus the right tools) as well as printing. There are many resources available on the web and on youtube to help you. If you are a beginner then you will have to experiment. We would suggest starting with a lower LPI lenticular as it's easier to see and manipulate, before moving on to higher LPIs (more detail and views).

Here is a good video from Red Bull:

 
 
 
 

Lenticulars can be used for Filp-photo and other 3D effects. Please note that we are simply supplying the sheets without advocating any particular use-case or project. We use these sheets for our own internal research on 3D effects, where we write all of the imaging software in-house. Strictly speaking, lenticular lenslet arrays are not holographic i.e. they do not use diffraction to spread the light; they use the optical principles of refraction to achieve this.

There are many resources on the web that show you how to make lenticular prints. The key is to match the LPI of the lenticular to the DPI of your printer output (usually an inkject printer). You then need to produce a pair of images and interleave them according to the DPI/LPI ratio. There are various software packages that can do this.

A good place to start for beginners is:

Note that the pitch of the lenticlar sheet may not be exact due to variations in the manufacturing process. So, the first thing to do is is a pitch test on the sheet; a good place to start is:

You can get some software to generate this here:

We hope this helps and gets you into the exciting world of 3D prints and good luck with your project!

 
Javid Khan