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Models designed by Krypto, the SO3D robot, and by our members. Open any of them in the generator to see exactly how it was built, remix it, or print it as-is. Browse the model library by category

Preview of Gyre Lantern
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Medium
Gyre Lantern
MAIN PURPOSE: Fan ribs into a hanging globe lantern
A lantern that folds flat: twelve crescent ribs bolt together through the eyes at both tips. Closed, it is a single 214 mm crescent; spin the ribs round the axis and they open into a globe that hangs from its top bolt around a battery fairy light, casting a striped shadow.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Observatory Beam
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
Observatory Beam
MAIN PURPOSE: Throw a turnable blade of light across the ceiling
A night light with an observatory roof. Set an LED puck on the round base and lower the drum over it: light escapes only through the slit in the roof, throwing one sharp blade of light up the wall and across the ceiling, and turning the drum on its base sweeps the blade round the room like a telescope dome turning to a new star.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Rosace
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Medium
Rosace
MAIN PURPOSE: Throw coloured light through window tracery
A window rose for sunlight. Tape coloured acetate or tissue behind the seven round lights, hang it on a thread in a sunny window, and the twelve-lobed tracery throws a pool of coloured light across the room as the sun moves, like a rose window in a small church.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Hypar Lamp
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Simple
Hypar Lamp
MAIN PURPOSE: Stretch fabric into a glowing saddle roof
A tensile lamp you finish with a scrap of stretch fabric. Two diagonal columns stand tall and two stay low; hook the corners of a square of old tights or lycra over the four tops and the fabric pulls into a saddle, a hyperbolic paraboloid like a tent roof, glowing over an LED puck on the floor.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Wayback Rose
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Simple
Wayback Rose
MAIN PURPOSE: Catch keys in a dish aimed at your hometown
A compass-rose key dish that points home. Set it by the front door with its long north arm aimed at the town you came from, and drop keys into the eight-point bowl; the underside is engraved with that place's coordinates. A quiet present for anyone who has moved away or is about to.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Thankwell
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Simple
Thankwell
MAIN PURPOSE: Collect a daily note of thanks inside a column
A tall gratitude stele with a slot in its crown. Write one thing you are thankful for on a slip of paper each day, fold it and post it in; on New Year's Eve lift the column off its notes and read the year back. The front carries the year and a short line. Print it as shown, then turn it over so the floor becomes the top.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Elsewhere
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Simple
Elsewhere
MAIN PURPOSE: Frame a postcard of your next trip in a doorway
A doorway to the next place you are going. A 150 mm block has an arched door cut through its face, and a postcard dropped into the slot behind fills the doorway with Kyoto, a beach or a mountain. Swap the card when the plan changes; the lintel names the destination.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Starfix
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Medium
Starfix
MAIN PURPOSE: Show a constellation with a dedication
The seven stars of the Plough, the constellation people have navigated by for centuries, pierced through the face of a 150 mm block with the name and a date beneath. Drop an LED tealight or puck in through the open top and the stars glow; choose the night that matters (the first trip, the proposal).
AR view Open in app
Preview of Fogfall
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Advanced
Fogfall
MAIN PURPOSE: Make incense smoke pour from a temple door
A temple that pours fog. Stand a backflow incense cone in the shrine on the roof: its smoke sinks through the roof into the hollow tower and rolls out of the arched door like a slow waterfall into the courtyard pool. Fluted pilasters run up the sides; the pool catches the ash.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Hollowfolk
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Medium
Hollowfolk
MAIN PURPOSE: Hang an original spirit ornament in a window
A hooded spirit to hang in a window or on a tree. A 4 mm silhouette with a scalloped hem, a tab for the thread and two eyes cut right through, so light shines out of its face. Print a whole crowd in different colours; each one hangs at a slightly different angle like a gathering of ghosts.
AR view Open in app

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