Friday Finds from the Shapeways Community

April 27, 2012

This week the Shapeways community turned up the 3D printed awesome another notch… Check out this cool desktop gift.

I respect one of the most experienced software

engineers on our project. He is very humble, attempting to divert

recognition and point out the accomplishments of others. Despite his

protestations, I believe he has saved our company a fair amount of money

over the course of this project (I think he’s been on this project for

5+ years now). So, I wanted to honor him with a desk sculpture. The

whole team chipped in for the cost of the print. I am going to attempt

to get this painted by Monday, since we’re doing an important test event

this week.

This piece is intended to be in the “steampunk” style – a sort of retro

future where things are powered by steam and mechanical means, and the

style is roughly Victorian / Industrial Revolution. The little plaque on

the front says and “Chief Engineer”. The strange

machine one which he leans is meant to be an imitation of the sort of

product my company produces, since I can’t represent software itself

tangibly.

Thirty Interweaved Hexagons by fdecomite is 30 interweaved hexagons…

Pixel Characters by fpad77

The Seed of Yggdrasil by Joabalwin
The design is based on the classic Celtic-style knot symbol for the World Tree from Norse mythology, Yggdrasil.

Inside the leaves you can see a small sphere of blue. If you look really carefully, you could notice that the continents in the blue ball are in the shape of Pangea and not our current distribution.