Ombrae System
digifab, feature — By Blaine Brownell on March 27, 2006 at 3:32 pmOmbrae System is a patent-pending computer-based image-processing system that allows for any digital image to be embedded directly into any material substrate. The image is not a transfer or material composite, like a hologram, but is made from physical three-dimensional pixels or “optical tiles.” The optical-tile pixel creates the necessary amount of light and shadow on the surface of the material to render an image. The material conveys graphic content without lenses, laminate layers, printed dyes, or inks.
This cost-effective surface treatment uses conventional material and manufacturing technologies. Images can be machined into glass, resin, plastics, stone and cast stone, concrete, metal, wood, leather, vinyl, rubber, composites, fabrics, and other materials for uses in architectural settings, industrial and product design, and a myriad of commercial applications.
Contact: QMAAS, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Find more information in Transmaterial 2.
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3 Comments
Hello,
wow…very interested in ombrae system…has anyone out there used it or seen it in person? where?
this is phenomenal
CCC
we have used this product in a small project at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Really great and has enormous potential!! We could have done a bit more with it but our budegt was very tight and QMASS did as much as they could within our restraints, but the project still turned out really well.