Bison skull

“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 :slight_smile:

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Absolutely love it, @martynjhogg :heart:

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Looks like a Longhorn, not a Bison. :wink:

– Dale

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Please print a small minotaur and hide it somewhere in the maze :heart:

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Yes it is, but I’m British so I have no idea about the difference between a longhorn and a bison… Its all just a load of old buffalo to me! I searched “bison” on thingiverse and this one looked cool :slight_smile:

Do you have some images of the parts before you glued them together?

No, I glued them together as they came off the printer. Here’s one of the skull with no horns…


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amazing project!

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Wow, that’s amazing! Great work.

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thank you!