Inspired by the complex forms of radiolarians, where intricate pattern is integral to structure, these shapes derive from a simulation of spring meshes. We created interactive software to morph, twist, and subdivide each design, transforming a simple mesh to a complex patterned structure.

size (inner circumference)
5 - 49.0mm
6 - 51.5mm
7 - 54.0mm
8 - 56.6mm
9 - 59.1mm
10 - 62.1mm
11 - 64.6mm
12 - 67.2mm

click CREATE to select your size

Watch a video showing the software we created to design these pieces http://vimeo.com/10074976

Here's a very festive truncated icosahedron that knows how to party, or maybe partied just a little too much.

While provocatively curved, she is indeed very shy!
She only allows a glowing glimpse of what she holds inside.

A light shade for LED tea-lights or a Luxeon/Cree LEDs
Hiding the source from direct view, resulting in a gentle light emerging

Specifications
This version is 12.5 cm high.
With a wall thickness of 1 mm.
The inside cavity is 4 cm wide and 6 cm high.
See pictures for details.

More
Multiple sizes and shapes available.

This implicit surface was generated and a shell was added to the isosurface in MeshLab.

Please check out all of the other implicit surfaces in my shop. implicit surfaces at vertigo polka

Size 8, 18.54 mm inner diameter. Innovative five-band ring design by Bram Cohen.
Metal version <-- THIS
Nylon version

Watch the YouTube video of the nylon version.

Other puzzle rings designed by Bram:
Sixth Sense
Take Five
Cross Rings

Dice Template
These are the 5 platonic solids to be used as dice template.

You can download them freely and modify them.
If you want to order this set of platonic solids as they are, there is no markup: you just pay for the material (as usual, shipping is free for any order of $25 or more).

In order to reduce the cost, they are hollow, with a tunnel joining the internal shell to the external shell. This tunnel is meant to prevent the automatic repair tool of Shapeways from removing the internal shell. But it is small enough to be invisible and to keep the support material inside.
The thickness of the models is 1.5 mm which is thick enough for Strong and Flexible materials, Details materials and Alumide.

A Youtube tutorial on how to hollow a die is also available.

A third order 3D Hilbert curve with 1.5 mm thickness & clearance. 2/8 blocks are rotated so that it forms a loop instead of an open curve.

See http://www.shapeways.com/model/108620/tiny_hilbert_cube_variation.html for a 1mm version and http://www.shapeways.com/model/109525/ for a 4th order 1mm version.

Sorry, I do not customize products anymore...

The Solid Marble is a sphere of 7/8" (22 mm).
A Do It Yourself version is also available with no markup!
Read this post for more information.

the pictures are showing it in stainles steel.

a spacy, extraterrestrial object for  keychains, the car, your bathroom, whatever : )

This is a cubic interpretation of the classic trefoil knot.

These are not links; it is a single, looping (in a cubic sort of way) structure.

There is also a 50mm version available.
And a pendant version, here: Cubic Trefoil Knot Pendant.


Check out additional models of knots and torus knots in my Knots section.

Simple but pretty shape. Rather small: the 2×2×2 cm measurement is from corner to corner; the faces themselves are closer than that.

Here's another interesting twisted, starry design with both icosahedral and dodecahedral symmetry.

This coral-inspired model (with 3-fold rotational symmetry) was generated with a single mathematical expression using the implicit surfaces filter in MeshLab.
Please check out all of the other implicit surfaces at vertigo polka.

Also available:
Fuddle Silver
Fuddle Steel/Bronze
Fuddle Color (sandstone)
Fuddle Plastic (hollow)

Designed as a test of the FCS printing capabilities.

A Geodesic Sphere.

The gyroid is a famous triply periodic minimal surface discovered by Alan Schoen at the end of the 60s. The gyroid separates space into two identical labyrinths of passages.

Although it's hard to tell at a glance, this version is not the usual pseudo-gyroid trigonometric isosurface. It is a true tension minimized gyroid, built using "Surface Evolver" (by Ken Brakke). It has been optimized to be printed in 5 cm dimension at reasonable cost.

a funny abstract object that loves to be pushed and squeezed...

Successfully printed in Stainless Steel and Silver

A right-handed (2,3)-torus knot, also known as a trefoil knot.

This model is also available in a 2 inch version.

Check out additional models of knots and torus knots in my Knots section.

Head is in 1:6 size for action figure sized. http://milosparipovic.com/index.php/jim-parsons-3d-print/

this is for material tests

The first piece in the Mad Tea Party series, Teabot is here to ensure that you stay fully caffeinated at all times!

Available in white or black glazed ceramic, it includes 1 Beverage Infusion Device, and 1 Debris Prevention Cover.

This is a reuleaux triangle rotated about one of its vertices.
This geometric oddity can roll just like a sphere.

This steampunk style knotted cog was procedurally generated using 3-dimensional spherical geometry, then stereographically projected into our (mostly) Euclidean universe.

Other sizes:
www.shapeways.com/model/231026/knotted_cog__large_.html
www.shapeways.com/model/231045/knotted_cog.html
www.shapeways.com/model/277265/knotted_cog__smaller_.html
www.shapeways.com/model/232385/knotted_cog__small_.html

This model was created with open source software. K3Dsurf, Blender, Meshlab, and FreeCAD. Color was added according to curvature.  The size of this model is about 5 cm across.  A thinner version without color can be found here: 3D Gyroid No color thin walls.