Abstract: A method for forming a three-dimensional structure comprises: a first step of dropping a liquid material containing a structure-forming material and a solvent onto a structure forming surface; and a second step of drying at least a part of the solvent in the dropped liquid material to form a deposit layer on the structure forming surface, wherein the first step and the second step are repeated while a dropping position of the liquid material is shifted such that a next droplet of the liquid material is dropped onto the deposit layer formed of the previously-dropped liquid material to repeatedly accumulate the deposit layers on the structure forming surface, thereby forming a three-dimensional structure having at least one inclination portion inclined with respect to the structure forming surface.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a three-dimensional structure, the method comprises the steps of: depositing a droplet of curable ink on a substrate; curing the ink deposited on the substrate; and building up the ink in layers by repeatedly depositing a droplet of curable ink on the cured ink and curing the deposited ink, while doing at least one of a control of a contact angle between the droplet of ink to be deposited and cured ink at the landing position where the droplet of ink is to be deposited and a control of a volume of the droplet of ink to be deposited so as to satisfy the condition dn?dn-1, where dn represents the landing diameter of a droplet of ink to be deposited and dn-1 represents the diameter of cured ink at a landing position where the droplet of ink is to be deposited.