  Computer Vision and 3D printing have rapidly evolved in the last 10 years but
interactions among them have been very limited so far, despite the fact that
they share several mathematical techniques. We try to fill the gap presenting
an overview of some techniques for Shape-from-Shading problems as well as for
3D printing with an emphasis on the approaches based on nonlinear partial
differential equations and optimization. We also sketch possible couplings to
complete the process of object manufacturing starting from one or more images
of the object and ending with its final 3D print. We will give some practical
examples of this procedure.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition;Numerical Analysis;Numerical Analysis