This design was inspired by the swirling seed heads of Clematis flowers. When I first saw the seed pods, the first thought that came to my mind was, "The flower is dancing." This model took me longer than expected to finish. My first model was a chaotic tangle of lines. (It looked like the flower went mad instead... hahaha) I went back to look at references to try to capture the original lightness and motion of the flower seeds. At the end, the model was tweaked further to make sure none of the tails intersect each other.

This cube really is something quite special.

About a year ago, after seeing the Transformers movie, I was inspired, by the behaviour of the alien technology in the AllSpark cube, to try and design a puzzle that could expand equally in all directions. To make things even harder, I wanted each piece to be locked in place by the preceding move.

After many prototypes I finally succeeded in creating this unique sculpture consisting of six parts.

The first stage in solving the puzzle involves discovering how the pieces fit together in the expanded configuration. (One of these moves includes a rotation, which makes it much harder to crack by computer!)

The second stage is to collapse the expanded cube down to the smaller cube by pressing each of the faces in the correct sequence.

The name of the puzzle comes from a (now obsolete) alternative to the Big Bang Theory proposed by Fred Hoyle. I like the fact that from its expanded, steady state the cube can either collapse inwards or explode outwards.

© Richard Gain 2008

It's a little hypercube pendant! There is a slightly bigger one here.

The same as this model on bathsheba.com: here it is in some other materials.

Bigger version here.

A self-referential tessellation of the sphere.

This is a little delicate as the lines are 1.5mm thick, but it seems sturdy enough.

A classic fractal.

This model does not print perfectly. Shapeways will do their best, which is darn good, but the smallest holes must be cleared by hand, and it takes time.

Enjoy, but please read the comments below before ordering.

This 7" pendant lamp is covered by ridges and valleys that transmit different amounts of light when illuminated; they furnish a striking pattern whether the lamp is on or off.

We created the form by simulating a process where two chemicals diffuse across a surface and react with one another to form stable patterns. This process, reaction-diffusion, can be used to explain the intricate patterns found on the skin of many types of animals, from the spots of leopards to the radiating stripes of angelfish. Growing a pattern with different parameters can produce dramatically different results.

Here, we orchestrated a pattern that twists elegantly towards the base of the lamp where it terminates in a gentle spiral. Lines diverge and converge along the contours of the sphere, blanketing the surface in many deep grooves. We think the pattern recalls the forms of sand dunes and hard corals.

Only the shade portion of the lamp is shipped by shapeways. The light fixture can be purchased separately from us, email us at hello@n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com

Light Fixture The lamp comes with an eco-friendly 3-watt LED light fixture with three bright Cree LED's that will last for 6 years of continuous use. It is UL-listed and plugs into the wall.

There are six regular convex polytopes in 4D, which are analogous to the five Platonic solids in 3D. This one is the odd polytope out, the one without a 3D counterpart.

It has 24 octahedral cells, all shown in this Schlegel diagram. Like the pentachoron it's self-dual -- the only self-dual solid in any dimension > 2 that is not a simplex. And if that wasn't enough, it's also the only regular convex polytope in any dimension > 2 that tiles its space and is not a hypercube.

Tendrils: Modular Organic System #2 Tendrils is the result of a collaboration between Dennis Dollens and Richard Elaver. The spiraling pieces snap-fit together, and branch out in multiple ways. Simple pieces quickly assemble into complex networks. Can be used to make jewelry, sculpture, or ...

For the first time since before technology was invented, this sculpture is available. I've always liked it, so I'm happy to see it again!

There are six regular convex polytopes in 4D, which are analogous to the five Platonic solids in 3D. This is the sixth, the hypericosahedron, with 600 tetrahedral cells.

This was the hardest of this group to make a printable model of. For a Schlegel diagram one would need quite a large size to allow the amount of interior complexity required, and it gets difficult to build as well as expensive, so I used this face-first projection suggested by Henry Cohn. Some of the tetrahedral are collapsed and become planar, but on the plus side the complexity is on the outside where you can see it!

Giraffe with partially open body through a Voronoi structure.
The body hosts two balls with a Voronoi structure, one inside the other.
Want to know more about Voronoi?
Voronoi on Wikipedia

See the shop for other Voronoi inspired models and jewlery.

Found on an alien beach. Left by what creature?

A smaller model is here.

This prickly sphere looks amazing in 3D, you can lose your self for hours playing and being mesmerized by it.
It doubles as an acupuncture ball, roll it around on your body ( I love it on my head) to relax and circulate your blood, the skin feels tingly afterwards. 

A third order 3D Hilbert curve with 1mm thickness & clearance. 2/8 blocks are rotated so that it forms a loop instead of an open curve. See http://www.shapeways.com/model/111039/tiny_hilbert_cube_variation__1_5mm.html for a 1.5 mm version and http://www.shapeways.com/model/109525/ for a 4th order version.

This is the first interlocking cube I ever designed. It consists of four pieces which fit together with a series of sliding movements. It is not too difficult for the average puzzler but will provide a satisfying challenge at this small scale. The completed cube is 1.6cm on each side.

This ring will be avalable to order shortly once we are 100% happy with the design.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Capreolinae
Genus: Odocoileus
Species: Odocoileus virginianus, the White-tailed Deer.

The word ‘deer' once referred to all wild animals that weren’t easily caught or domesticated – they are animals that can not be owned. O. virginianus is native to the continent America. Native Americans and early settlers utilized their hides to make buckskin leather.

Deer possess many glands that allow them to produce scents that are used to attract a mate or to mark territory. Some of these scents are detectable by humans and have been used for thousands of years as a fixative in perfumes; The word ‘musk’ originates from Sanskrit muṣká meaning ‘testicle’.


The Ring:

This ring is made using 3D Printing.technology.
It is available in either stainless steel or silver.
It is available in sizes XS, S, M, L, XL. - ring size chart

An organic 3d-printed lamp that projects incredible shadows. It can be used as a pendant or table lamp.

The seed lamp plays with reaction-diffusion at different scales to produce an organic effect. A simple sphere grows into a complex sculpted surface by layering reaction patterns at a micro and macro scale. The larger scale pattern creates the overall topography of the lamp while the smaller scale modulates the surface thickness to reveal a cellular texture when lit.

For this lamp, the patterns at both scales are cellular, however the surface is punctured only according to the disposition of the smaller scale. We were inspired by microscopic images of seeds where both the overall shape of the seed and the cells of which it is composed are visible.

Light Fixture
The lamp comes with an eco-friendly 3-watt LED light fixture with three bright Cree LED's that will last for 6 years of continuous use. It is UL-listed and plugs into the wall. The light fixture can be purchased separately from us, email us at hello@n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com

I've attached a ball to the rolling ball sculpture with the idea that you cut it off and sand it and it should work as the marble. The marble is 5/8 inch so it should work with regular glass or wooden marbles too. Yea it works! See the video!

Two letters fused into a single block – what an eye-catching way to showcase initials! Yes, it's like the cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach. Yours will be 2-3" (5-7cm) tall depending on which letters
Choose from Comic, Typewriter, Block or Script font, as shown in the second picture above.
A smaller size is here.

Do three letters work? Sometimes, find out more here.