Customizable Holiday Ball

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In the spirit of coming holidays... (customizer rendering is EXTREMELY SLOW, read below) You can customize the number of bends, height, and width of the ball (in mm). The smoothness parameter for curves (USE IT ONLY after adjusting other parameters) determines how fluid the curves are. However, with a definition of 60 for smoothies, the rendering process will take A LOT OF time (with 12 curves and a smoothness setting of 60, it took me 20 minutes to render in OpenScad). Therefore, I've attached a few STL files for your convenience. I'm not anticipating any need for support, but due to the extremely small footprint, the object disconnected from the bed mid-print even with a brim of 4mm. To address this issue, I added support (with an overhang angle of 60 degrees) and removed most of them using a support blocker in Cura (see the attached screenshot). Printed on an Anet A8 with a speed of 50 mm/s and a layer height of 0.2mm. It's likely that this object will print smoother on a better printer. Any suggestions or comments you may have are welcome. Edit: The fn parameter didn't work in customizer, so I replaced it with curves_smoothness and reuploaded the scad file v2.1. Enjoy!