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…
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…
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…
New fact of the day: If you add a pyramid to each face of an octahedron, then you are taking its “Kleetope.” A cool new word for me, leading to…
Today’s post is contributed by Bill Owens, also known as owens on Thingiverse. He is the creator of the Customizable Menger Sponge and Customizable Sierpinski Tetrix models that cleverly print…
For the last week I’ve been printing whatever polyhedra appeal to me, and today I realized that everything I’ve printed is a Catalan solid. Today is the fifth, the Triakis…
Another day, another Catalan solid. Today it is the Deltoidal Icositetrahedron, dual of the Archimedian solid known as the Rhombicuboctahedron. As we discussed yesterday, the fact that these are duals means…
Today’s print is yet another Catalan solid, the Pentagonal Icositetrahedron – dual of the Snub Cube which we printed with Poly-Snaps in Day 116, and giraffe-cousin of the Pentagonal Hexecontahedron we printed…
Continuing our string of Catalan solids, today we printed a Deltoidal Hexecontahedron. Thingiverse link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:272833 Settings: MakerWare custom profile described in Day 194, on a Replicator 2. Technical notes, math…
The Disdyakis Dodecahedron is a convex Catalan solid with a lot of cool properties, including: It’s the dual of an Archimedian solid, the Truncated Rhombicuboctahedon; It has 26 vertices, 72…
