Floating, spilling skull

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This is remixed from "Skull Bowl Remix..." by ranibizumab and "Floating Cup (smoother look......" by me, and "Floating Cup Sculpture" by HappyMoon. I created it because I made another remix ("Floating Goblet", https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3761400) and tried a print of that using red filament to try to look like wine. It instead looked like blood, which didn't have the wanted effect for that but did look like it could make a creepy Halloween decoration! To get the best results, follow the print instructions at "Floating Goblet" https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3761400. The infill of the skull and stream need to be low (about 5%) and the splash and the pins should be high (about 75%) so that the model stands upright on its own. Print in the orientations specified by the STL files. I adjusted the stream part to fit well within the skull cavity. The skull itself is a copy of the "Skull Bowl Remix..", with only the scaled size changed. The skull must be printed with supports (which worked pretty well, though it's a complicated model and takes a while to print). I also scaled the stream and splash parts down to 80% of the size of the "Floating Cup" from which they were derived. To get the best results, scale all parts equally as needed (but they would have to be scaled much more for the skull to ever approach a human skull size!).