Nefertiti ring

This is an octagonal ring with the bust of queen Nefertiti on top. The STL file for the bust was released by artists Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles. The original scan is a 71.8 MB file with 2,018,232 facets. Because the ring is small I reduced the number of facets to about 25,000 and smoothed the ears a bit. I joined the bust to an octagonal ring with AutoDesk's TinkerCAD and printed the design in steel from shapeways. This project explored interesting links between real objects (Nefertiti herself, and this 3363 year old bust), their representations (the bust and scans), and copies (3D printed objects). Inner diameter is 20.3 mm (slightly bigger than a US ring size 10.5)