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3D Printed Rippledrop Vase - Designed by Clockspring3D
I love working out ways to make vase mode do interesting things, and one of my favourite interesting things to make it do is give the impression of distinct shapes and layers overlapping each other.
So, I started out by making bowls with raindrops. The raindrops became diamonds, and the bowls became cylinders, and at some point I decided I'd lost my way. Cylinders just weren't what I wanted (especially since I was also working on another non-vase-mode cylindrical model that you might have already seen just now in an adjacent post), so I pulled it all apart and shaped up a more traditional vase form.
The diamonds didn't entirely disappear, though, and instead merged with the drops in a kind of angular way, slicing their way down the vase and sectioning the outer shell into rippled fragments. The result was good! Of course, there was still the matter of making it all properly printable in vase mode, which mostly involved tidying up a multitude of little transitional bits internally so they grew nicely on forty-five degree angles instead of magically appearing as unsupported horizontal lines.