romanesco - fractal vegetable

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I'm still trying to wrap my head around the intricacies of OpenSCAD as I labor over creating a stunning 3D fractal, reminiscent of a delicate romanesco vegetable, so precisely crafted that it looks like it leapt straight off the page. Calculated by OpenSCAD on February 5th, 2015, and scaled to perfection with a factor of 0.5 for a snug fit on my 3D printer's bed via Blender, this fractal's manifoldness was meticulously fine-tuned using MeshLab to ensure it printed with perfect accuracy. The included OpenSCAD script that brings this beauty to life is an exemplary display of pseudo-fractal wizardry (dimension 3), crafted with the minimum radius of a trihedron in mind, a precise 1mm as dictated by Mindraw. However, beware – rendering this masterpiece took an astonishing 40 hours on my trusty Core i7 2.9GHz processor, utilizing no less than 40GB of VM memory, while slicing it via XYZware added another 3 hours to the process, and printing with my reliable Da Vinci 2.0 at a leisurely pace of 0.1mm per second, taking a substantial 27 hours to complete.