Recently Fabricated Test Models


SADDLE SURFACES from Séquin's "Sculpture Generator I"


"Saddle Trefoil"

Three normal saddles stacked on top of one-another and warped into a toroidal ring.

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"Hyperbolic Heptagon"

A ring-chain of seven ordinary saddles.

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"Monkey-Saddle Hexagon"

A ring-chain of six monkey saddles.

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"Monkey Trefoil"

Three monkey saddles stacked on top of one-another and warped into a toroidal ring.

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"New Toroidal Models"

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"Heptoroid"

A ring-chain of seven 4th-order saddles.

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"Trefoil Blocks"

Modular building blocks for the Minimal Saddle Trefoil.

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"Arch Segment"

Modular building block for a large arch.

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POLYHEDRAL TEST PARTS - for CyberCut and SDM


"Loop-Tile"

This is an interlocking toroidal shape that can tile 3D space completely.

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"Ladder"

A test structure with implicit intersections between the various prismatic parts -- to test the behavior of slicing software.

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"Cubist Figure-8 Knot"

A square rod with axis-aligned segments in the topology of a figure-8 knot.

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"Cubist Chinese Button Knot"

A rectilinear version of this famous knot.
Small gaps have been left between adjacent branches.

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SYMMETRICAL TANGLES - for Layered SFF


"3D Web of F8-Knots"

Mutually interlocking figure-8 knots with lobes in tetrahedral directions.

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