In fifth century, skilled practitioners have been attempting to create artificial eyes that were such an exact replica of a person's natural eye that they appeared identical. Today in this field of prosthesis, well trained professionals of medical world fit, shape, and create ocular artificial eyes, including sophisticated and highly complex details of a human iris--this process normally done by painting each eye by hand. John Stolpe is a 3rd-generation ocularist who believes that it is well past time that his industry moves into the future. instrument’ A high-resolution 3-Dimensional printer. Digital printing is no longer just only a dot matrix crude printing, it can reproduce profession fine art," ocularist Stolpe says, explaining the philosophy behind the "leap" he took to focus his Los Angeles-based practice, Advanced Artificial Eyes, on making digital irises. "