Some printmaking techniques may also be appropriate. Another area to explore could be using different thicknesses of paint or painting onto different materials to develop varied textures.

Researchers in MIT Professor Stefanie Mueller's group have spent much of the last decade developing a variety of computing techniques ... different ink layers are aligned correctly. The printing ...

including properties like adhesion—how well different layers or materials stick together. Known as voxel interface 3D printing, or VI3DP, the technique uses a printhead equipped with a standard ...