Maxine Perroni-Scharf will present her MSE thesis "Constructing Printable Surfaces with View-dependent Appearance" on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 10am in CS 402. The members of her committee are as follows: Szymon Rusinkiewicz (Adviser) and Olga Russakovsky (Reader). The title and abstract are as follows: "Constructing Printable Surfaces with View-dependent Appearance" We present a method for the digital fabrication of surfaces whose appearance varies based on viewing direction. The surfaces are constructed from a mesh of bars arranged in a self-occluding colored heightfield which creates the desired view-dependent effects. At the heart of our method is a novel and simple differentiable rendering algorithm specifically designed to render colored 3D heightfields and enable efficient calculation of the gradient of appearance with respect to heights and colors. This algorithm forms the basis of a coarse-to-fine ML-based optimization process that adjusts the heights and colors of the strips to minimize the loss between the desired and real surface appearance from each viewpoint, deriving meshes that can then be fabricated using a 3D printer. Using our method, we demonstrate both synthetic and real-world fabricated results with view-dependent appearance.