Waterman Butterfly World Map Projection

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Really? You know the Waterman? Have you seen the 1909 Cahill map it's based - Do you have a framed reproduction at home?! Well, I do. Inspired by Randall Munroe's xkcd "What Your Favorite Map Projection Says About You" webcomic http://xkcd.com/977/\n~ Thank you, Randall, for introducing me to the Butterfly projection ~\nMore information on this really awesome projection of our world can be found here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterman_butterfly_projection\nUnfortunately, this 3D printed version cannot be folded back into a globe... yet!\n\n \n \nInstructions\nThis piece was designed to have different colors at each of its three layers\nWeeksB_ButterflyMap.stl\nSize: ~200mm x 120mm x 4mm\nPause printing at:1.5mm Z height to switch to the second color2.9mm Z height to switch to the third color \nWeeksB_ButterflyMap.gcode\nThis is the g-code used to print the pieces shown - It requires Sailfish firmware - created with Simplify3D\nLayer height 0.1\nLeft Extruder 200°C\n3 shells\n20% infill\nPause printing at:Layer 15 / Z 1.5mmLayer 29 / Z 2.9mm\nTotal printing time: ~3 hours \nWeeksB_ButterflyMap.x3g\nThis is the .x3g created from the g-code listed above\nUse if you have a MakerBot (or offshoot) running Sailfish\nWeeksB_ButterflyMap-ExLarge.stl\nThis is actually the original size file\n Use it to cut it up into pieces or have one of those huge printers.\nSize: ~900mm x 550mm x 15mm\nWeeksB_ButterflyMap.SLDPRT\nThe Solidworks part file used to create the .STLs