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Day 212 – Stylized Catalan Wireframes and full how-to-do-it
Day 212 – Stylized Catalan Wireframes and full how-to-do-it 640 480 mathgrrl

Our Catalan Wireframe Polyhedra series is finally complete! Here is the whole happy family of thirteen: Settings: MakerWare .3mm/low with support-reducing custom slicing profile, on a Replicator 2. We printed…
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Day 211 – …And the Rest
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Or the Professor and Mary Ann, as they prefer to be called. Our last two Catalan solids are the Triakis Tetrahedron (dual of the Truncated Tetrahedron and Kleetope of the…
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Day 210 – Rhombic Dodecahedron
Day 210 – Rhombic Dodecahedron 640 480 mathgrrl

We’re almost at the end of the Catalan series! Today we printed our eleventh, the Rhombic Dodecahedron, dual of the Cuboctahedron (which we also constructed with printed snap-tiles on Day 87). Thingiverse…
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Day 209 – Afinia Menger
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Most of our prints for this blog are made on a MakerBot Replicator 2, since that’s what we usually have at the house. But the other day one of the…
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Day 208 – 26mm Level 3’s and the Sketch A Menger Cross-Section Competition™
Day 208 – 26mm Level 3’s and the Sketch A Menger Cross-Section Competition™ 1024 768 mathgrrl

I love to root for the underdog: David vs Goliath, Buffy vs the entire Hellmouth, the Baudelaire twins against Count Olaf and his evil theatre troupe. Today the role of the underdog…
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Day 207 – Friday Fail: Menger style
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Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
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Day 206 – Menger coverups
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At this year’s Gathering for Gardner Conference (G4G11) I gave a short talk about 3D printing sliced Menger sponges. So that people could look at the sliced models and guess…
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Day 205 – Disdyakis Triacontahedron
Day 205 – Disdyakis Triacontahedron 640 480 mathgrrl

Today is our largest Catalan print so far, with a diameter of over 120 millimeters – about the size of a very large grapefruit. One cool thing about this model is…
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Day 204 – Pentakis Dodecahedron
Day 204 – Pentakis Dodecahedron 640 480 mathgrrl

Yes, we seem to have fallen behind again. We can talk more about that on some “Friday.” For now we’ll catch up with the rest of our Catalan prints and…
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Day 203 – Rhombic Triacontahedron
Day 203 – Rhombic Triacontahedron 640 480 mathgrrl

This Catalan solid is the Rhombic Triacontahedron, the dual of the Icosidodecahedron (which we’ve already printed twice before as a snap-together model, in Day 89 and Day 117). Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:274427 Settings: .3mm/low…

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