Golly Poly Gomboc

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Ridiculously high poly gomboc, for no good reason. 1.4m faces, 2,000 fountain steps. Very smooth model and very smooth coloring. My PC kept choking on the paint step, so I had to rewrite it in manageable swatches. Took 14 hours to paint. Colors indicate distance from the Center of Gravity. There are five lines of elevation, each represented by a blue-to-red spectrum to give detail. Black is closest to CoG, white is farthest. The color bar shows the distances. The critical area is the football shape on each side, and the neck connecting to the main body. The tapering lines of color in the neck shows that "down" is toward the back, so this should balance well. Video at https://youtu.be/HiX52qiioMM