Summary

I was curious how various image textures would work as displacement maps so I mapped them on the faces of a cube gear cube. These cubes aren't ideal for mapping all photos because there's an enormous gap right in the center of each face, but for textures they look pretty good.

Print Settings

Printer:

Monoprice Select Mini

                                            <p class="detail-setting rafts"><strong>Rafts: </strong>                     <div><p>Doesn't Matter</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting supports"><strong>Supports: </strong>                     <div><p>No</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting resolution"><strong>Resolution: </strong>                     <div><p>0.175</p></div></p>                                                                                <p class="detail-setting infill"><strong>Infill: </strong>                     <div><p>20%</p></div></p>                                                        <br>                        <p class="detail-setting notes"><strong>Notes: </strong>                    </p><div><p>Printed in Inland PLA+</p><p>You'll need 8 pins and the pin STL only has 2, so print that 4 times.  I had some problems printing out a whole plate of these all at once so this was more convenient for me.</p></div>

How I Designed This

This was made with approximately the same procedure I used for the Hellraiser Cube Gears, with a few adjustments:

When assigning the vertices for each vertex group, leave a margin around each side. I found it was easiest to subdivide the cube into small blocks, but not too small. Then you can select all the vertices on a side and use the Select->SelectLess function several times to shrink it back from the edges. You can then subdivide your side patch as much as you want, before assigning it to a group. This was necessary even though I had manually added a white border around each texture.
For some reason my textured cube was still causing the PLA Gear Kit to emit assertion violations, which only stopped after I went back to my Blender model and decimated the geometry to about 80%. I'm not sure what that changed, but it certainly didn't hurt anything.

Textured Cube Gears