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8 Jul 2024 07:14:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: snub cuboctahedra  
From: AQ
Date: 4 Jun 2014 02:52:12
Message: <9hfto9dpaif5vip5nbc1avpvf9kd53f39r@4ax.com>
Did you get the 3D printing done for you or did you do it yourself. If
you had it done what was the cost ?

With Stella 4D you can easily make any polyhedron and their millions
of stellations and export the stl file directly.  I know this bypasses
POV but it gets the job done.

John


On Fri, 30 May 2014 18:22:36 EDT, "Bill Pragnell"
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>Greetings all
>
>Not posted much for a while, though I've been lurking. Here's a little something
>of interest.
>
>On the left, a snub cuboctahedron skeleton rendered with radiosity and focal
>blur. On the right, a snub cuboctahedron skeleton output as an OpenSCAD script
>using a slightly modified version of the same macro, then rendered with OpenSCAD
>to an STL file, then 3D printed in stainless steel by Shapeways.com. The coin is
>a UK 5p for scale (the model is about 1 inch across).
>
>This started as an experiment to see if I could use POV-Ray to produce printable
>models, but I'm so pleased with it that I'm going to make a whole collection -
>starting with the rest of the Archimedean solids :)
>
>Bill
>
>
>


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