It's time to patreon. You deserve it. I really appreciate that this channel focuses on creativity and actually making things, and is not limited to reviews of things to buy. That's what 3D printing is all about, no? Great job.
@@deletedhobo7405 The easy way would most likely be cutting the 1 layer he usually does into puzzle pieces and get a jigsaw out of it to insert in the normal puzzle. Then the more advanced idea could be adding a sliding puzzle or make a maze
Wow wow wow wow. As a huge fan of all things polyhedra, this absolutely blew me away. I'm not sure if you ended up doing this, and it wouldn't make a huge difference in the prints, but there is a way to make the dihedral angles exact and not round them to decimal places. Fusion 360 will let you set a parameter equal to PI, which can then be used in another parameter to create an expression like for the dihedral angle of a dodecahedron, π − arctan(2). When doing this everything should be in radians not degrees. You may have already figured this out, but i thought it might be helpful. Keep on making awesome stuff Devin! You are truly inspiring!
I didn't figure that out, I'm not particularly math-oriented so thanks for sharing! In any case, it seems rounding to the thousandth of a degree did the job at this scale :)
I've been printing dodecahedrons for the last couple of days. You can input "180-atan(2)" as a parameter in Fusion 360 (with degrees set as the units). You don't need to use radians unless you want to. @Make Anything thanks for this great video. I just found it. I'm excited to take my dodecahedrons to the next level.
This is just pure genius. Such a cool use of your single layer multi color printing method. Very awesome work, thanks for sharing your process and your files for everyone to print.
Couldn't be any further from the truth. Glacier national park is growing in size even though we were told it would be completely gone by 2020. Also we are about to enter a solar minimum in the next solar cycle (2020-2031). It is predicted by NASA to be a Maunder Minimum which means little no sun spots or flares which means less energy out put. We haven't had this type of cycle in about 200 years and in fact the "middle ages mini ice age" was a Maunder Minimum. Take it from someone who has been around the block a few times, climate change is a scam. They've been saying this bs since the 60s. Its only gaining steam now because millennials are brainwashed and intellectually lazy.
Angel Thomas I’m the Dungeon master for my d&d group, and I’m planning on getting a 3D printer at some point. I’ve thought a few times about 3D printing miniatures, but it would also be cool to make a couple of sets of custom dice for my players!
@@EwenHeaton miniature printing is a real mess and really hard, but once you get a good result and that you use the right settings, you can get pretty good results!
Honestly printing miniatures isn't that hard. You definitely need your support settings dialed in though, otherwise it can be basically impossible to remove
@@EwenHeaton you can get some pretty cheap DLP and SLA printers these days. I would highly suggest that rout for miniatures. FDM can and will work but it's not really built for extreamly small details.
Simply amazing. Unbelievable what you can make with a single extruder printer! That’s a lot of cleverness and creativity that goes into your designs. Keep it up!
Yet again, your creativity is beyond me. Please don’t ever stop. The day I start making money is the day I will start supporting you on your endeavors. Keep inspiring others ❤️
Another great use of 3D printing technology. You’re inventive use 3D printers continues to amaze me. Thanks sharing all the innovative techniques and all the hard work making these videos!
with the star map you'll need to find the smallest point source you can, there are some pretty bright LED ones out there, though i dont know where to buy them. check out Henry Segerman's video on 'Illuminating hyperbolic geometry'
I would think that if you constructed a similar shape, but smaller and able to go inside, with those LED's at the center of each panel should potentially maybe possibly perhaps yield the results you're looking for??? ( I hope that my uncertainty is clear :-)
A laser without a focusing lens would be perfect for that, as it's a point source of light. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of lasers with an angle remotely wide enough.
When you first showed the unfolded dice and it had integrated locking mechanisms to hold the faces in place I actually said "freaking brilliant" out loud. Amazing work man! Keep pushing the envelope!
It was just 1 video. And you didn't let me stay even a minute without saying "this guy is brilliant" in my mind. Why don't you have million subs yet?! You deserve every bit of it
A tip for folding thin parts like this: Let them warm up on the print bed for a bit before bending them. Even for fresh filament that doesn't snap off, this also helps prevent the white stress lines along folds.
Pretty much instantly loaded up that icosahedron file to print! Been loving doing lots of quick prints for xmas gifts and experimentation and the file is only a 3h print at max size so this is awesome! Love your work as well, recently completed the springo skull and its one of my favourite prints so far. Fantastic work as always man!
@@make.anything I'm using an ender 3 so max size for me was 140% so shouldn't be too bad but for sure appreciate the advice, cheers! I'll definitely buy the full set soon, but money's a bit tight rn so will probably be after Christmas lol. Sweet idea though, that globe especially is satisfying the low poly vibe I've been hitting recently. Excited to try the multi colour first layer technique soon as well!
Devin, thank you for all you do. Being into geometry and mathematics this was just so pleasant to watch(thanks for squeezing in educational stuff as always 😉), keep up the great work and Happy holidays.
Hi! As it was already said: make holes in your black icosohedron as small as possible. Myself would try just to puncture them with a thin metal needle. Make it hot and it's easy. My idea is that these folding structures is a good start for some fun light&sound project. Just put some simple square oscillators (with few mid.size speakers) inside and make their volumes and pitches dependable on the light (LDR components instead of timing resistors) and make them fixed and lights - possible to rotate or move. Just a real problem I see here: power sources. It can be batteries but their weights can disbalance a construction. This must be thought out very well. Oscillators is the simplest part, I can give you good schems. Maybe the power to the rotary part can be "wired" without wires partially... I guess that it possible with a kind of "brush contacts". Or maybe it can be transfered by induction (like modern wireless mobile charger devices).
Really smart using the folding to create 3D shapes using your technique to print in multiple colors, it would take me a entire box of Ritalina to come up with something like that, I wonder if you can do more papercraft like art with this idea or if it just too complex or only limited to platonic solids. Even so you still can aways do some kinda of voxel/low poly art and try to transform in some kinda of puzzleor mr.potato head kinda of toy. Like, trying to create your own animal using a bunch of building blocks or building a castle using bricks and other shapes AKA reverse jenga
Hi, Devin! Fantastic work, as always. I think that if you printed an internal icosahedron inside your planetarium, you could put a pinhole in each face, which would allow an internal pinhole illumination of each face of the planetarium. That would give you the sharp projection you want, though at a loss of brightness.
Can you try building modes of atomic structures using some of these techniques? Also, you could create a model of the Mysterium Cosmographicum, which is a model of the solar system using all the platonic solids that were Crated by Johannes Kepler to explain the planet spacings.
Great job. If you want a crisp projection with light, the trick is to use the smallest light you can with the highest output possible. Sharp shadows only show up when the distance between the light source the subject is great but the light is powerful (think of the sun at noon and how crisp the shadows are)
I love them, you always make such beautiful work. I was messing around with modeling polyhedra in fusion 360 recently too and came across the same technique you used by using the dihedral angle for the taper. I was doing it to make non traditional DnD dice like the rhombic dodecahedron and, as you also showed in your video, the rhombic triacontahedron. While I haven't yet, I still plan on getting them printed by shapeways in metal. Although after seeing this technique I might have to try printing them myself. Keep up the good work!
You could use fairy lights for the light shade as the individual bulbs would each be positioned differently from each of the holes. This could give off different levels of intensity illuminations to represent the different brightness levels of stars. 🔆✨💫🌌
I think you can apply the first technique, multicolour on different layers, to other layers aswell. You can either change the fillement after you pause the print or you can use a z offzet, and just print the firsl layer higher.
Is it possible to do use this technique with more complex models such as pepakura models. I think that would be a great challenge, plus it could open a door to a whole new world of models.
Some time ago I believe NASA was hosting a contest to develop a vessel to grow plants in space (to study how plants develop without gravity) that could be 3d printed, and I think the one you made with the "spore like sphere" in the middle would make a pretty strong candidate! Awesome work, always innovating the way 3d manufacturing can be used!
Here's an idea if you take one of those fold-out ones, and get it to where each side is rounded enough to where when you fold it together it would be a complete round sphere? I don't know if you understand what I'm saying. but you'd have to print the creases for each side where you fold it, on bottom instead of top because obviously if your folding it from the upside in and you couldn't print the Curve on each side. So you'd have to print it upside down kind of like with the curves on the top so you can fold them in from the bottom. the only thing is you have to get the right angle of the rounded part so that way when you fold it each side would match and line up perfectly to make the sphere!
wow this surprised me! Really cool idea :) also i had no idea PLA could stand those bends i was thinking of buying some polypropylene filament to print something similar
Hey could you create using the folding technique more of a how Papercraft to work like if you could take a shape and take the paper craft and add the Clips in with the proper angles and everything printed with different color layers and therefore together and making a more dynamic actual 3-D print to give it better shape but still have that nice clean-cut consistency Smoove look like you given all these shapes
You probably should try heating folding lines a little, like with a hair dryer, to make sure they fold smoothly and without internal cracks... i failed a couple of times on my prints before trying heating and it helped with old PLA.
There's also pepakura which is used to turn any 3d model to a flat plane , for papercraft and such. It uses little paper flaps for joining, but maybe could be expanded? people have built iron man suits with it
Hey, there's this old movie called Demon Seed and the antagonist, Proteus, has a rhombic dodecahedron form. But he folds out in a very unique way such that he has a bunch of tetrahedrons that fold out. I can send you some tweets with a few screenshots of him, but your video is *right* aligned with his design. I've been trying to figure out how to make him for *years* I'm not even joking.
Actually, I was working on a foldable icosahedron for a globe but was stumped by how to calculate the clips. Looking forward to your tutorial in that. Thanks!
THE WAY YOU DESIGNED THE SNAPPING PART OF THE FOLDABLE DESIGN IS SO FRICKING COOL
It's time to patreon. You deserve it.
I really appreciate that this channel focuses on creativity and actually making things, and is not limited to reviews of things to buy. That's what 3D printing is all about, no? Great job.
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@@typhlosion8972 I love hot chocolate and tea in the evening because that’s when the mango monkeys forege the diamonds out of the bushes
These are absolutely brilliant! I love love love how you keep pushing the boundaries of whats possible with 3d printing, you are so inspiring!
put .org at the end of brilliant
You definitely need to try and make a 3d printed phone case...with a puzzle!
How about a modular puzzle on the back, so you can have different types and designs of puzzles?
Sliding or maze would be cool
@@deletedhobo7405 The easy way would most likely be cutting the 1 layer he usually does into puzzle pieces and get a jigsaw out of it to insert in the normal puzzle. Then the more advanced idea could be adding a sliding puzzle or make a maze
Is that the digital hazard symbol?
@@The_Wosh yeah.
earth is flat: nah
earth is a sphere: nah
earth is a donut: nah
earth is a Colorful, Foldable 3D Printed Polyhedra! : YES
@Aspect516 yes earth may also be a dinosaur but i think its a Colorful, Foldable 3D Printed Polyhedra!
this is sarcasm polyhedron. “Polyhedra” is the plural form of the word.
You_just maybe there is more then one earth
Earth is a potato
@@andreaquadrati i respect your opinion but i think its a Colorful, Foldable 3D Printed Polyhedra!
Wow wow wow wow. As a huge fan of all things polyhedra, this absolutely blew me away. I'm not sure if you ended up doing this, and it wouldn't make a huge difference in the prints, but there is a way to make the dihedral angles exact and not round them to decimal places. Fusion 360 will let you set a parameter equal to PI, which can then be used in another parameter to create an expression like for the dihedral angle of a dodecahedron, π − arctan(2). When doing this everything should be in radians not degrees.
You may have already figured this out, but i thought it might be helpful.
Keep on making awesome stuff Devin! You are truly inspiring!
I didn't figure that out, I'm not particularly math-oriented so thanks for sharing! In any case, it seems rounding to the thousandth of a degree did the job at this scale :)
Wat what wat wet wat did you say?
Ima confuse
I've been printing dodecahedrons for the last couple of days. You can input "180-atan(2)" as a parameter in Fusion 360 (with degrees set as the units). You don't need to use radians unless you want to.
@Make Anything thanks for this great video. I just found it. I'm excited to take my dodecahedrons to the next level.
@@skating_stars8173 I wish I was as smart as this thread. lmao.
Make a hexaflexagon with the 3d printer please!
You need to see v heart... I think that's the name
@@fossilco.artrelateddocumen331 yep!
@@fossilco.artrelateddocumen331 vihart
But be care ful or you might end up having a hexaflexa mesagon
Weird hexaflex but ok
This is just pure genius. Such a cool use of your single layer multi color printing method. Very awesome work, thanks for sharing your process and your files for everyone to print.
*points to Antarctica*
“It’s green because this is a projection of Earth in the year 2022.”
Lmaooo
I'm not sure if it's funny...
shots fired mang
Couldn't be any further from the truth. Glacier national park is growing in size even though we were told it would be completely gone by 2020. Also we are about to enter a solar minimum in the next solar cycle (2020-2031). It is predicted by NASA to be a Maunder Minimum which means little no sun spots or flares which means less energy out put. We haven't had this type of cycle in about 200 years and in fact the "middle ages mini ice age" was a Maunder Minimum. Take it from someone who has been around the block a few times, climate change is a scam. They've been saying this bs since the 60s. Its only gaining steam now because millennials are brainwashed and intellectually lazy.
@@budskipper r/wooosh
@Bryan just triggered he showed why climate change is a scam?
I wanna see a d20 made with some really cool patterns. I’d make it myself but I actually don’t have a 3D printer yet... :(
Angel Thomas I’m the Dungeon master for my d&d group, and I’m planning on getting a 3D printer at some point. I’ve thought a few times about 3D printing miniatures, but it would also be cool to make a couple of sets of custom dice for my players!
@@EwenHeaton miniature printing is a real mess and really hard, but once you get a good result and that you use the right settings, you can get pretty good results!
yea really big d20 for special rolls! maybe it has things besides numbers for the 1 or 20? Or roman numerals?
Honestly printing miniatures isn't that hard. You definitely need your support settings dialed in though, otherwise it can be basically impossible to remove
@@EwenHeaton you can get some pretty cheap DLP and SLA printers these days. I would highly suggest that rout for miniatures. FDM can and will work but it's not really built for extreamly small details.
Simply amazing. Unbelievable what you can make with a single extruder printer! That’s a lot of cleverness and creativity that goes into your designs. Keep it up!
The globes are so beautiful! Well, all of the prints were beautiful but especially the globe on the brown and yellow stand. Incredible video!
Maybe make a 20 sided dice for d&d or Magic: The Gathering?
lucas rademaker I was thinking the same thing! All these decahedrons icosahedrons but no D12s or D20s?
And a demogorgon...
The most creative 3D prints on Earth. Thank you for sharing it all with us!
Yet again, your creativity is beyond me. Please don’t ever stop. The day I start making money is the day I will start supporting you on your endeavors. Keep inspiring others ❤️
One of the most creative channels on 3-D printing thank you for adding so much value
Another great use of 3D printing technology. You’re inventive use 3D printers continues to amaze me. Thanks sharing all the innovative techniques and all the hard work making these videos!
This is truly pushing the envelope of 3d printing with a single nozzle! Keep it up!!
amazing as always. right now you are one of the very few forging your own path and developing new ways to use and think about 3d printing. great job.
with the star map you'll need to find the smallest point source you can, there are some pretty bright LED ones out there, though i dont know where to buy them. check out Henry Segerman's video on 'Illuminating hyperbolic geometry'
I would think that if you constructed a similar shape, but smaller and able to go inside, with those LED's at the center of each panel should potentially maybe possibly perhaps yield the results you're looking for??? ( I hope that my uncertainty is clear :-)
A laser without a focusing lens would be perfect for that, as it's a point source of light. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of lasers with an angle remotely wide enough.
When you first showed the unfolded dice and it had integrated locking mechanisms to hold the faces in place I actually said "freaking brilliant" out loud. Amazing work man! Keep pushing the envelope!
Devin, you are the most positive person I've ever seen.
Pretty wild man! Love how creative you're getting with these builds
Thanks Jessy, I'll try to keep it up!
you are literally a math & 3D printing genius!!
There is soooooooooo much creativity in this one video, you wayyyyyy blow other TH-cam’s out of the water. Great stuff
Most inspiring - as always. Cheers and thanks!
It was just 1 video. And you didn't let me stay even a minute without saying "this guy is brilliant" in my mind. Why don't you have million subs yet?! You deserve every bit of it
Some of those look really amazing! Nice work!
This is so cool and inspiring! Keep pushing the edge of what's possible with 3d printing!
Yes please do more 3D printed fabric!
wow! great job devon! one of my favorite videos from you. You are so creative with the technique, it blows my mind. very inspiring.
That is a great idea! Lots of things could be made by assembling pieces that are printed.
A tip for folding thin parts like this: Let them warm up on the print bed for a bit before bending them. Even for fresh filament that doesn't snap off, this also helps prevent the white stress lines along folds.
Wow you’ve really outdone yourself this time, that globe is so dope!!
I probably said that before but you never -- EVER -- cease to amaze! I so want to print a dice now! Congrats man -- you're a genius!
Pls make a video of how you made the snapping parts! And is there a blank cube file?
Perhaps I'll make a blank cube in a video about how I made those parts :O two in one!
You are an inspiration man. Totally supporting you on Patreon now. Respect!!!
You're so brilliant :0 tbh you are the whole reason I got into 3D pens and now I found my passion so thank you for that and Merry Christmas! :)
You are taking 3D printing to another level lol
Pretty much instantly loaded up that icosahedron file to print! Been loving doing lots of quick prints for xmas gifts and experimentation and the file is only a 3h print at max size so this is awesome! Love your work as well, recently completed the springo skull and its one of my favourite prints so far. Fantastic work as always man!
Thanks! The connectors might become tough to snap together if you scale up.. you may have to scrape them down a bit with an x-acto.
@@make.anything I'm using an ender 3 so max size for me was 140% so shouldn't be too bad but for sure appreciate the advice, cheers! I'll definitely buy the full set soon, but money's a bit tight rn so will probably be after Christmas lol. Sweet idea though, that globe especially is satisfying the low poly vibe I've been hitting recently. Excited to try the multi colour first layer technique soon as well!
I'm always in awe of how innovative you are. I wish I had the time money and patience to do things like this!
Totally awesome!!! I love this method of getting multi color prints
I love this. Do more of these. Any way to like a video twice?
dude, you are a genius! pushing boundaries all the time! keep it up!
You cant even imagine how happy these designs made me! Definitely will try them out!
mmm... lovely geometry :D
Your prints look awesome !
Devin, thank you for all you do. Being into geometry and mathematics this was just so pleasant to watch(thanks for squeezing in educational stuff as always 😉), keep up the great work and Happy holidays.
I REALLY want to see this used for loaded d20, as an awful holiday gift to tabletop enthusiasts.
Hi! As it was already said: make holes in your black icosohedron as small as possible. Myself would try just to puncture them with a thin metal needle. Make it hot and it's easy.
My idea is that these folding structures is a good start for some fun light&sound project. Just put some simple square oscillators (with few mid.size speakers) inside and make their volumes and pitches dependable on the light (LDR components instead of timing resistors) and make them fixed and lights - possible to rotate or move. Just a real problem I see here: power sources. It can be batteries but their weights can disbalance a construction. This must be thought out very well.
Oscillators is the simplest part, I can give you good schems. Maybe the power to the rotary part can be "wired" without wires partially... I guess that it possible with a kind of "brush contacts". Or maybe it can be transfered by induction (like modern wireless mobile charger devices).
Thanks for sharing the stl files!
These foldable prints are perfect gift box for valentines Day ❤️
Really smart using the folding to create 3D shapes using your technique to print in multiple colors, it would take me a entire box of Ritalina to come up with something like that, I wonder if you can do more papercraft like art with this idea or if it just too complex or only limited to platonic solids. Even so you still can aways do some kinda of voxel/low poly art and try to transform in some kinda of puzzleor mr.potato head kinda of toy. Like, trying to create your own animal using a bunch of building blocks or building a castle using bricks and other shapes AKA reverse jenga
Hi, Devin! Fantastic work, as always. I think that if you printed an internal icosahedron inside your planetarium, you could put a pinhole in each face, which would allow an internal pinhole illumination of each face of the planetarium. That would give you the sharp projection you want, though at a loss of brightness.
I’m loving these techniques you are showing. Thank you 😊
Can you try building modes of atomic structures using some of these techniques? Also, you could create a model of the Mysterium Cosmographicum, which is a model of the solar system using all the platonic solids that were Crated by Johannes Kepler to explain the planet spacings.
hey vsause michael did a video on this
Yes!!!
Great job. If you want a crisp projection with light, the trick is to use the smallest light you can with the highest output possible. Sharp shadows only show up when the distance between the light source the subject is great but the light is powerful (think of the sun at noon and how crisp the shadows are)
Exceptional work! Love all these prints. Thanks for sharing this with us. Happy holidays!
bought your pack no. 1 Thank-you for your time and effort Awesome
Thanks!
I'm not sure I can say any more than already covered by all. Just out of your mind crazy! I did not know PLA was that flexible to fold!
Thanks. PLA can bend...but only when it's very thin
Devin you are the MAN!
12:40
Half a year to go, can’t wait
For the large dice, you can dice stack with them if you have enough if you have a cup or Pringle’s can
Your creativity is ever inspiring. Thank you for taking us along in your journey. And the earth in 2022 joke gave me a needed laugh.
I love them, you always make such beautiful work. I was messing around with modeling polyhedra in fusion 360 recently too and came across the same technique you used by using the dihedral angle for the taper. I was doing it to make non traditional DnD dice like the rhombic dodecahedron and, as you also showed in your video, the rhombic triacontahedron. While I haven't yet, I still plan on getting them printed by shapeways in metal. Although after seeing this technique I might have to try printing them myself. Keep up the good work!
What about a folding springo!
Sounds like a very fun challenge.
if I could I would give you a billion dollars for just being you.
Yes. Just seeing all the precise geometry researched for this project, really makes Mr. Devon's passion for the project all the more impressive.
@@hotaru8309 exactly. He cares so much about the quality of the videos
@@hotaru8309 I'm glad other people see that. I tutor people in math and I love how casually he talked about polyhedron.
You are so creative dude! Keep it up!
Dude, thats some next level stuff! Amazing!
Can confirm. Earth does indeed look like a polyhedra with green caps in 2022. Who would've thought.
You could use fairy lights for the light shade as the individual bulbs would each be positioned differently from each of the holes. This could give off different levels of intensity illuminations to represent the different brightness levels of stars. 🔆✨💫🌌
man you are pushing outside the box! thanks for sharing the techniques.
I think you can apply the first technique, multicolour on different layers, to other layers aswell. You can either change the fillement after you pause the print or you can use a z offzet, and just print the firsl layer higher.
Mate your ideas a fricken epic. I don’t watch loads of your videos but I know I’m always in for a surprise when I do
I love your enthusiasm!
This proves the world isn't flat!!! It's obviously an icosahedron! Someone post this video on the flat earth discord.
You are creative on a whole other level
Hey, thanks for showing my shipping service prints in the beginning! Cool! 😊👌
Genius! I love your ideas.
Thanks!!! Downloading those Gerber files done now! I love dodecahedron... And yes I did have to look up that word to spell it... 😆
thank you. this helped me to make colored signs.
You are a total genious man, I love you. You are so inspiring!
Is it possible to do use this technique with more complex models such as pepakura models. I think that would be a great challenge, plus it could open a door to a whole new world of models.
I dream of a software that automatically creates these like Pepakura does for papercraft 🤤
Some time ago I believe NASA was hosting a contest to develop a vessel to grow plants in space (to study how plants develop without gravity) that could be 3d printed, and I think the one you made with the "spore like sphere" in the middle would make a pretty strong candidate! Awesome work, always innovating the way 3d manufacturing can be used!
Here's an idea if you take one of those fold-out ones, and get it to where each side is rounded enough to where when you fold it together it would be a complete round sphere? I don't know if you understand what I'm saying. but you'd have to print the creases for each side where you fold it, on bottom instead of top because obviously if your folding it from the upside in and you couldn't print the Curve on each side. So you'd have to print it upside down kind of like with the curves on the top so you can fold them in from the bottom. the only thing is you have to get the right angle of the rounded part so that way when you fold it each side would match and line up perfectly to make the sphere!
Print a truncated icosahedron (a soccer ball shape)
You are absolutely amazing!!!
wow this surprised me! Really cool idea :) also i had no idea PLA could stand those bends i was thinking of buying some polypropylene filament to print something similar
hey, just wanted to say how awesome you are, enjoy all your design skills and experiances! one of a solid 3d printer youtube celebrity :D haha
For the foldables you only need the first one or two layers to colour and pattern then after you can add a few more layers to add a bezzel
9:40 that looks like a metroid poweup. It's my favourite of these
I’m not very good at designing but I think a tie made out of the chain mail fabric would look really cool
Hey could you create using the folding technique more of a how Papercraft to work like if you could take a shape and take the paper craft and add the Clips in with the proper angles and everything printed with different color layers and therefore together and making a more dynamic actual 3-D print to give it better shape but still have that nice clean-cut consistency Smoove look like you given all these shapes
You probably should try heating folding lines a little, like with a hair dryer, to make sure they fold smoothly and without internal cracks... i failed a couple of times on my prints before trying heating and it helped with old PLA.
a nice idea to keep doing this pretty holocron from Star Wars like this
My favorite platonic solid is the octahedron favorite 2d shape is the hexagon
There's also pepakura which is used to turn any 3d model to a flat plane , for papercraft and such. It uses little paper flaps for joining, but maybe could be expanded? people have built iron man suits with it
Hey, there's this old movie called Demon Seed and the antagonist, Proteus, has a rhombic dodecahedron form. But he folds out in a very unique way such that he has a bunch of tetrahedrons that fold out. I can send you some tweets with a few screenshots of him, but your video is *right* aligned with his design. I've been trying to figure out how to make him for *years* I'm not even joking.
wow... this is next level 3d printing skill... mind blew @_@
For your star map you could use Fibre optics with a led light generator. And thanks for the wonderful video.
Actually, I was working on a foldable icosahedron for a globe but was stumped by how to calculate the clips. Looking forward to your tutorial in that.
Thanks!