A venture firm in Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, has developed technology to produce a mask bearing a shocking resemblance to the person ordering it, and they're taking off as gifts and for stage performances.
The maker, One Face, has created a program to automatically create three-dimensional data by processing only two pictures of a person's face — one from the front and another from the side.
Using the latest 3-D printing machine from the U.S., the Z Printer, the fully automatic program applies ink to special powdery plaster based on the 3-D data.