金 Oh My Gold (jīn)

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<h3>TL;DR</h3><p>The Chinese word for the metal gold: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%87%91">金</a> (<i>jīn</i>)<br>The Search for the most Golden Gold filament.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h3>Medieval Alchemist&nbsp;</h3><p>The search for Gold is as old as menchild.<br>Today we have internet and the famous subreddit for 3D printers:</p><p>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/">https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/</a></p><p>Millions of members and thousands &nbsp;always online.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h3>Searching Gold</h3><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/yvtj12/soon_i_know_how_golden_oh_my_gold_is_looking_for/">https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/yvtj12/soon_i_know_how_golden_oh_my_gold_is_looking_for/</a></p><p>This request for comments on reddit delivers a great list of golden Gold Filaments. Many thanks to the redditors who added Gold to this list. If some Gold is missing leave a comment with the filament name and if possibly a link to the manufacturer, to get added it here.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h3>Printing Gold</h3><p>If you have some of the listed filaments please print the great Chinese word for Gold and post your make, so we can compare the many golden Gold filaments.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h3>Found Gold, list of golden filaments:</h3><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>Prusament PLA Blend Oh My Gold</h5><p><a href="https://www.prusa3d.com/product/prusament-pla-oh-my-gold-blend-970g/">https://www.prusa3d.com/product/prusament-pla-oh-my-gold-blend-970g/</a></p><figure class="image"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/319124/rich_content/d3b5a69d-9d1f-4936-830b-2f647767c247/3eirq4ncr76-bxtc9fqzyq.jpeg#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%226a630db3-de78-4b4d-b7a1-424051d86fb0%22%2C%22w%22%3A2335%2C%22h%22%3A1104%7D"></figure><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>Prusament PLA Blend Viva La Bronze</h5><p><a href="https://www.prusa3d.com/product/prusament-pla-viva-la-bronze-blend-970g/">https://www.prusa3d.com/product/prusament-pla-viva-la-bronze-blend-970g/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>Devil Design Silk Gold</h5><p><a href="https://devildesign.com/">https://devildesign.com/</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Devil-Design-Filament-Silk-Gold/dp/B08MCPVXXV">https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Devil-Design-Filament-Silk-Gold/dp/B08MCPVXXV</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>Extrudr PETG gold</h5><p><a href="https://www.extrudr.com/en/products/catalogue/petg-gold_1755/">https://www.extrudr.com/en/products/catalogue/petg-gold_1755/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>Sunlu Silk Gold</h5><p><a href="https://www.sunlu.com/">https://www.sunlu.com/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>Fiberlogy Easy PLA True Gold</h5><p><a href="https://fiberlogy.com/">https://fiberlogy.com/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>Proto Pasta’s Gold Dust Translucent</h5><p><a href="https://www.proto-pasta.com/">https://www.proto-pasta.com/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>Matterhackers Silky gold PLA</h5><p><a href="https://www.matterhackers.com/">https://www.matterhackers.com/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>atomic PLA gold V2</h5><p><a href="https://atomicfilament.com/products/1-kg-true-gold-pla-filament">https://atomicfilament.com/products/1-kg-true-gold-pla-filament</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>atomic PETG gold V2</h5><p><a href="https://atomicfilament.com/products/true-gold-petg-pro">https://atomicfilament.com/products/true-gold-petg-pro</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>DasFilament PLA Gold V2</h5><p><a href="https://www.dasfilament.de/filament-spulen/pla-1-75-mm/496/pla-filament-1-75-mm-gold-v2">https://www.dasfilament.de/filament-spulen/pla-1-75-mm/496/pla-filament-1-75-mm-gold-v2</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>eryone gold</h5><p><a href="https://eryone3d.com/">https://eryone3d.com/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>esun Silk</h5><p><a href="https://esun3dstore.com/">https://esun3dstore.com/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>overture Silk</h5><p><a href="https://overture3d.com/products/overture-silk-pla-filament-1-75mm?variant=37924988682428">https://overture3d.com/products/overture-silk-pla-filament-1-75mm?variant=37924988682428</a><br>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h3>The Models &nbsp;金</h3><h5>Attribution</h5><p>The websites chine-culture.com and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b74VS_NMc1o">@ChinaMatters</a> on youtube where a big help to find the many ways how chinese words are calligraphed.&nbsp;</p><p>It is a great kind of art to draw chinese words. The systematic has a strong logic. And the word Gold 金 is one of the so called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_(Chinese_characters)">radicals</a>, words with 8 strokes.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><figure class="image"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/319124/rich_content/b5dcbd33-26d0-4d16-a7d6-70bcfba30585/yt-china-matters-gold-step-1-8.png#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%22959ba204-51d0-4e7e-bd80-d9aaca22af63%22%2C%22w%22%3A1108%2C%22h%22%3A1003%7D"></figure><p>&nbsp;</p><h5>Printing</h5><p>I used the scaled up and slightly modified unicode version for the word gold. I modified the stroke number 6. to make the model one piece. All the other model files are different ways to calligraphy this nice and shine word.</p><figure class="image"><img src="https://media.printables.com/media/prints/319124/rich_content/d9e838ea-4519-4874-afa6-a587405a1a81/t-xvmcwvs6u8d6wediotmq.png#%7B%22uuid%22%3A%22fe62ad22-7049-4003-9813-fce1c36d4e61%22%2C%22w%22%3A1704%2C%22h%22%3A1976%7D"></figure><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is the scaled up and modified unicode version, which i really like, but i added also a lot of other styles, maybe you like one of the others more.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>