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Designing with Weighted Random Parameters in OpenSCAD
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Starting from just one random number you can use code to generate snowflakes, clocks, and even entire worlds. Use our simple randomizer as a starting point for adding some controlled randomness to just about any OpenSCAD design…
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Generating Random Mastery Quizzes with Nothing But LaTeX
Generating Random Mastery Quizzes with Nothing But LaTeX 1058 800 mathgrrl

What is Mastery Based Grading, why would you use it, and what’s the LEAST you can do to implement something effective? And how can we do it all in LaTeX…
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Design Tour: Tinkercad, Fusion 360, OpenSCAD, and Customizer
Design Tour: Tinkercad, Fusion 360, OpenSCAD, and Customizer 414 312 mathgrrl

In this article we’ll walk through how to create a simple penny trap model four ways: in Tinkercad, Fusion 360, OpenSCAD, and the Thingiverse Customizer…
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Perko Knot Reprint: Dissolvable vs. Breakaway Supports
Perko Knot Reprint: Dissolvable vs. Breakaway Supports 2016 1512 mathgrrl

Our Giant Spiky Perko Knot takes six days to print… In this post we’ll walk through a reprint of this giant 3D model, and compare dissolvable and breakaway supports…
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Back It Up: A Guide to Protecting Your Online Content
Back It Up: A Guide to Protecting Your Online Content 710 528 mathgrrl

Companies come and go, especially online. Data gets lost, start-ups don’t get past start, and businesses go belly-up. How do you protect your content?…
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Just in Time: Clocks!
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You can create a unique, custom generated 3D-printed clock face with just a little bit of design knowledge and an inexpensive battery-powered clock kit…
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The Snowflake Machine
The Snowflake Machine 628 472 mathgrrl

The Snowflake Machine uses random numbers, mathematical algorithms, computer code, and SCIENCE to create over a billion unique, beautiful snowflakes…
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Knots in OpenSCAD with Sweeper
Knots in OpenSCAD with Sweeper 710 528 mathgrrl

This week we recreated a special collection of 3D knot models based on projects we did with students a few years ago, suitable for printing on SLS printers…
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Hinged Triangle-Square
Hinged Triangle-Square 710 528 mathgrrl

One of our favorite 3D designs is a model of Dudeney’s famous hinged dissection of a triangle to a square, also known as the Haberdasher’s Puzzle…
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Generating Random Constructivist Art
Generating Random Constructivist Art 628 472 mathgrrl

This is a joint work by Edmund Harriss (gelada) and Laura Taalman (mathgrrl), inspired by British constructivist artist Mary Martin’s artwork “Inversions”…

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