A depth map, carved or printed
Grayscale artwork is a ready-made height map: white stands tall, black stays low. Painting by Kazuki Takamatsu.
- 100 × 100 × 6 mm
- Standard resolution
- 80,002 facets
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Grayscale artwork is a ready-made height map: white stands tall, black stays low. Painting by Kazuki Takamatsu.
A mountain range as ridged noise. A 1.5 mm base turns it into a solid that prints without gaps.
Cut to a circle with the Shape tab, 40 mm across and 2 mm thick, with a flat rim all round.
Crisp black-and-white artwork on the Rounded square shape: a 70 mm coaster, 2 mm thick.
Dark areas are thick and light areas thin, so a backlit print glows. The Lithophane preset, cut to a heart.
Six-fold artwork on the Hexagon shape, 80 mm across: the size of a Catan-style board tile.
An ordinary color photo (Belle Tout Lighthouse, by Poliphilo, public domain). Color photo mode and auto-contrast turn sky, stone and grass into a believable relief.
Five drops send rings across each other. A soft, flowing relief for a wall panel or a CNC carving.
Nested petal curves on a round shape, 35 mm across and 2.6 mm thick. Bold lines survive even the free resolution.
Rolling hills cut into flat steps on an Octagon shape: a 90 mm coaster that looks like a topographic model.
A thin lithophane for a small LED night light: the moon and its reflection are the thinnest, so they glow brightest.
A grey alien from a public-domain drawing (Alien Grey, by Peacefyre, CC0). The dark eyes are cut deep, so the big head and glints stand out. An 80 mm plaque with a 1.2 mm base.
Embossify makes finished things, not just flat reliefs. Pick an object to make it right now: its page opens the converter already set to that size and thickness, with the Art library to try. The free Standard resolution STL costs nothing, and High resolution is an upgrade.
Round coaster
76 × 2 mm
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Rounded square coaster
70 × 2 mm
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Gear coaster
90 × 3 mm
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Hex tile, small
25 × 2 mm
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Hex tile, Catan size
80 × 2 mm
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Leaf coaster
90 × 2.4 mm
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Square tile
100 × 3 mm
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Trivet
180 × 7 mm
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Heart coaster
90 × 2.4 mm
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Hexagon coaster
95 × 2.4 mm
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Octagon coaster
90 × 2.4 mm
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Triangle tile
100 × 3 mm
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Round ornament
70 × 3 mm
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Star ornament
80 × 3 mm
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Heart ornament
70 × 3 mm
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Sunburst ornament
80 × 2.8 mm
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Heart pendant
40 × 3 mm
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Oval pendant
32 × 2.6 mm
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Star medal
70 × 3 mm
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Round medal
50 × 3 mm
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Dog tag
50 × 2 mm
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Keychain tag
50 × 3 mm
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Crescent moon ornament
70 × 2.8 mm
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Diamond pendant
35 × 2.6 mm
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Lightning bolt pendant
45 × 2.6 mm
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Heart keychain
45 × 3 mm
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Star keychain
50 × 3 mm
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Credit card
85.6 × 2.4 mm
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Business card
88.9 × 1.8 mm
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Playing card
63.5 × 1.6 mm
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Luggage tag
90 × 3 mm
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Bookmark
45 × 2.4 mm
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Postcard
152.4 × 2.4 mm
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Photo plaque
177.8 × 3 mm
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Door sign
200 × 4 mm
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Desk nameplate
200 × 3 mm
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License plate
304.8 × 4 mm
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Wall plate
114.3 × 3.2 mm
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Shield badge
60 × 3 mm
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Octagon sign
90 × 3 mm
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Diamond sign
100 × 3 mm
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Arrow sign
130 × 3.6 mm
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Speech bubble sign
110 × 3.4 mm
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Keyhole plaque
80 × 3 mm
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Pentagon plaque
100 × 3 mm
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Square wall art
200 × 5 mm
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Round wall art
250 × 5 mm
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Poker chip
39 × 3.3 mm
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Button or bottle cap
26 × 1.6 mm
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Domino
48 × 2 mm
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Guitar pick
26 × 1 mm
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Fridge magnet
50 × 3 mm
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Cloud night light
100 × 2.2 mm
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Moon night light
90 × 2.2 mm
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Lithophane panel
150 × 3.6 mm
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Shield magnet
50 × 3 mm
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Speech bubble magnet
60 × 3 mm
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Dice face
16 × 2 mm
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Board game token
30 × 2 mm
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Chess square
50 × 2.4 mm
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D20 face
30 × 2 mm
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Tabletop terrain tile
80 × 10 mm
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Wedding keepsake
177.8 × 3 mm
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Baby announcement
120 × 3 mm
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Anniversary heart
120 × 3 mm
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Pet memorial
100 × 3 mm
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Memorial shield
120 × 3.6 mm
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Graduation medal
60 × 3 mm
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Trophy plate
100 × 3 mm
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Award medallion
90 × 3.4 mm
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Cookie stamp
60 × 4.8 mm
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Drink marker
40 × 2 mm
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Hexagon trivet
160 × 7 mm
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Serving board art
300 × 4 mm
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Switch plate
114.3 × 3.2 mm
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House number sign
200 × 4 mm
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Plant marker
50 × 2.4 mm
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Doorbell plate
80 × 2.6 mm
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Mailbox plate
150 × 3.6 mm
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Pet tag, heart
35 × 2.6 mm
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Kids name sign
250 × 4 mm
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Bedroom star
100 × 3.4 mm
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Real coin sizes, cut to a circle with a raised rim. Drawn to the same scale, so you can compare them.
Start from an outline instead of an object. Pick an outline and your picture is cut to it, with a flat frame around the edge, at whatever size and thickness you like. For a finished item with its own size, see Objects and coins.
Embossify Terra turns real elevation data into a printable landscape. Each of these opens its own page with a live 3D preview and a free STL. Browse all 501 places
Grand Canyon, ArizonaA mile deep and up to 18 miles across.
Giza Pyramids, EgyptThe Great Pyramid and its neighbors on the desert plateau.
Mount EverestThe highest point on Earth, 8,849 m.
Matterhorn, SwitzerlandThe pyramid of the Alps.
Mount St. Helens, WashingtonThe crater left by the 1980 eruption.
Omaha Beach, NormandyD-Day, 6 June 1944: the bluffs the troops had to climb.
Edinburgh Castle and Arthur's SeatA castle on the plug of an extinct volcano, with the Royal Mile running down its tail and Arthur's Seat beside it.
Santorini, GreeceThe rim of a volcano that blew itself apart 3,600 years ago.
Bora Bora, French PolynesiaThe remains of a volcano inside a lagoon.
Nurburgring, GermanyThe 20.8 km Nordschleife, called the Green Hell, looping through the Eifel hills.
Jackson Hole, WyomingSteep ski runs at Teton Village under the Grand Tetons.
Manhattan, New YorkAn island of schist, almost flat once you take the buildings away.
Open the Terra Explorer → Make a model of any place on Earth →
The same close-up, converted at each type with the real converter. A full paid file is 140 to 250 MB, so each picture here is a 26.7 mm window cut from a 100 mm model, with every type sampling it at the exact grid spacing it would use on the whole picture.
A real photo, the lantern room of a lighthouse. Stonework, railings and window frames only appear at the finer grids.
Photo: Belle Tout Lighthouse by Poliphilo, public domain (CC0), Wikimedia Commons.
Hairlines three pixels wide and tiny lettering: the kind of detail only a finer grid can follow.
Ridged texture down to single pixels. Every step up in grid size reveals another layer of it.
Every example here is the free Standard resolution, exactly what you get when you convert a picture on the home page. The paid types use a much finer grid, so they show far more detail than you see in these pictures.
Source JPEG of a Kazuki Takamatsu painting
Video of the printed STL
Like what you see? Make your own with the image to STL converter, tune it in Studio, check files in the Embossify Lens, or learn about lithophanes and CNC routing.