Project Shellter - Oxystele

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UPDATE 2011-12-13 07:23 Kylie Karshellian adopts a print of this shell today! Watch the event unfold with annotations and music at http://youtu.be/LtvlLBQnEc0. UPDATE 2011-12-07 21:35 Kendall Karshellian has adopted a print of this shell, happening now! See it here: http://youtu.be/QpCusZ_q0ww UPDATE 2011-12-04 19:11 The original oxystele.stl contained spiral holes. After processing through netfabb's cloud service, the holes are gone. If you downloaded the file earlier, please re-download it. M.B. Cortie's work is featured in another one of his greatest hits at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/009784939390054D Modeled after the Oxystele sinensis sea snail shell, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxystele_sinensis, will Coenobita clypeatus - "Purple Pincher" - hermit crabs prefer this? Only experimentation will reveal the answer! This model was created using Maya's shellNode plugin, based on Cortie's design, and thickened with Blender's Solidify modifier http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-256-beta/solidify-modifier/. The goal is a workflow utilizing open source tools. However, this shell surface necessitated a commercial tool. Cortie's model and many of its resulting shells have been developed in Maple http://www.maplesoft.com/applications/view.aspx?SID=3851&view=html. Porting them to an open source tool such as Sage or Blender is the next step in creating a complete open source workflow. Any skilled python programmers up for the challenge? Follow Project Shellter's progress at: http://projectshellter.com, http://twitter.com/ProjectShellter, http://bit.ly/ProjectShellter, http://bit.ly/ProjectShellterCams, http://bit.ly/ProjectShellterVideos