Golf ball generator

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Here are golf balls with various numbers of dimples, each provided in both solid (requiring supports to print) and split-joinable versions. For the joinable versions, you may want to adjust the tolerances in the scad file to ensure a proper fit. My printer has limited precision, so on your printer, the fit might be loose. I haven't printed the golf balls yet, but I expect that even the split versions will struggle with the lower dimples, so you may want to add supports and clean up or simply ignore any damaged dimples. The golf balls are created using my approximate Tammes problem solver (for more information on the solver, see here). On Windows, you can download tammes.exe and run it from the command line: tammes -scad 336 > 336.scad to generate an OpenSCAD file with 336 dimples. On other operating systems, simply compile tammes.c. The calculations are likely too computationally intensive for the OpenSCAD file to perform them. See this video for the Tammes solver in action.