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Topoform.

Your artwork, your printer, your models — one validated relief.

THE PRINTER DECIDES

Your hardware sets the millimetres, not a preset

Bed size bounds the footprint. Nozzle diameter sets the analysis pitch. Layer height decides which surface detail is physically printable and which is a lie. The number of filament slots in your AMS, CANVAS, or MMU sets the colour plan. Enter your printer once and every model that follows already fits it.

TERRAIN, NOT EMBOSSING

Shaped by erosion, pressure, and flow

Brightness-as-height gives you a shallow plaque. Topoform reads composition instead: a pressure field from image salience, form recovered from the artwork's own shading, texture streaked along its fibre directions, then a stream-power erosion pass that carves a real drainage network into the surface. The result reads as landscape from across a room and as detail up close.

GATES, NOT VIBES

A model that fails a check is not delivered

Watertight geometry, outward winding, zero non-manifold edges, slope under the printable overhang angle, colour caps at full opacity depth, and a slicer import check — thirty-three gates in total, each measured and written into a report you can read. Fail one and Topoform refuses the file rather than handing you a pretty preview that will not print.

What it does
printers
Profiles for the machine you own

Presets for Elegoo CANVAS, Bambu AMS, Prusa MMU, tool changers, and plain single extruders — or type in your own bed, nozzle, layer height, and slot count.

Requested height is clamped to what your Z envelope can actually build.
filaments
The spools you actually have loaded

Keep a rack of filaments with colours, materials, and finishes. Slot assignments map straight onto the relief's colour channels, so the plan matches the machine.

Four channels on a multi-material unit; one on a single extruder.
resolution
As fine as the nozzle can resolve

Analysis runs at a pitch derived from your nozzle — typically 0.12 mm — so colour boundaries stay crisp instead of blocky. Detail below one layer height is dropped on purpose: it would vanish in slicing anyway.

Finer than 0.10 mm is refused — no nozzle prints it.
output
A 3MF, a contact sheet, and the evidence

Every run writes a multi-material 3MF, a twelve-panel contact sheet showing the hypsometric relief, drainage network, slope field and cross-section, plus a JSON report with every measured number behind the verdict.

Opens in any multicolour slicer. Topoform is not a slicer and writes no G-code.
your models
Bring your own AI, or none at all

Connect your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini account — or a local LM Studio server — for optional art direction. Keys live in your macOS Keychain. Add nothing and the app never opens a connection.

Models advise on style. They never generate the geometry.
deterministic
Same image, same printer, same model

The geometry engine runs entirely on your Mac and is seeded from the source image, so a run is reproducible. Nothing about the shape depends on a service being up or a model being in a good mood.

Expect several minutes per relief at fine pitch. Real geometry takes real time.
What Topoform is not
It hands you a validated model, not a finished print.

Passing every gate means the geometry is sound and both installed slicers could read it. It does not mean the print will succeed. Filament mapping, purge settings, orientation, supports, bed adhesion, and the decision to press start stay with you and your slicer — as they should.