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ArticleIntegrative and comparative biology2026

TAMP-OS: An Open-Source Workflow for Tactile 3D-Printable Lithographs.

Natalia Gonzalez-Vazquez, Robert Faulkner, Victoria Gamez, Karly E Cohen, Gunther Richter, Abigale Stangl, Andrew K Schulz

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Article in Integrative and comparative biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Natalia Gonzalez-VazquezMaterials Centralized Scientific Facility, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0009-0001-7689-1896
Robert FaulknerRobotics Centralized Scientific Facility, MPI-IS, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Victoria GamezSchool of Industrial Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Karly E CohenFriday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6556-5414
Gunther RichterMaterials Centralized Scientific Facility, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3578-8486
Abigale StanglSchool of Industrial Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2761-1429
Andrew K SchulzTactile Media Alliance, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8007-5157

Funding

Alexander von Humboldt FoundationMax Planck Society
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Describe an animal without using the verb look. The world is filled with features too small for our eyes to see: the setae on a gecko's feet, the cuticles covering a rat's whisker, or the fuzziness of a bat's wing. Can you effectively provide an alternative method for interpreting complex microscopy images while preserving the length scale? In this work, we provide a fully open-source lithograph workflow, allowing rapid creation of three-dimensional (3D) printable lithograph files for tactile accessibility for generalized images. The lithographs made in this workflow utilize a customizable API, allowing users to manually input various output variables (resolution, relief height, and blur) while outputting various file types (STL, STP, 3MF, and GLB). This workflow is validated on several different commercial 3D printers. This work seeks to leverage 3D printing to create tactile graphics and art, making science more accessible and enabling novel tactile exploration of biological structures. This workflow is paired with an open-source GitHub repository for Tactile Accessible Microscopy Printing (TAMP-OS; https://github.com/nagova/TAMP-OS). The TAMP-OS workflow includes a step-by-step guide, allowing other users to branch and augment the code for their customizable use cases while maintaining an open-source codebase allowing users to adapt all parts of the workflow for their needs.

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MicroscopyPrinting, Three-DimensionalSoftwareAnimalsWorkflow

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PMID42234979
PMCPMC13343484

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