“I want one of those engraved bison skulls with the horns” she said…
This is a remix of this amazing 3d scan of a fossilised bison skull… https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2772592
I used Rhino QuadRemesh to create a smoothed, symmetrical mesh and then used @laurent_delrieu’s maze on mesh tool available in the Nautilus plugin. It took a long time to process the maze but I think it looks amazing.
I had some great help from @martinsiegrist in this topic to split the mesh into 17 manageable pieces that I could fit onto a 250mm x 250mm x 250mm 3d printer and then join together with location dowels.
The result is 1.8m wide, used about 5kg of PLA and took over 120hrs of printing.
The gaps aren’t invisible - next time I will probably make a feature of the gaps - but you have to inspect it to notice them.
It is above a fireplace but before anyone points out, I realise that I cannot light the fire with a PLA bison skull above it