A 3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering #3dThursday

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Developed by Studio Darius Ou with Benson Chong, Manual is a fully 3D-printed book that carries part of the machine code used to fabricate its own body. The object arrives with a strange directness. Its pages, binding, and raised marks are produced in one printing sequence, so the book comes off the print bed already formed. There is no separate assembly stage, no later binding process, no applied graphic layer. The marks belong to the same material logic as the pages themselves. The raised text printed across its pages is partial G-code, the instruction language used by the printer. In this sense, Manual carries a fragment of its own making within its body. It treats the page as both surface and construction record, giving the reader access to the object’s fabrication through touch as m