[Anton Gaia]’s SPIRAL sculpture resembles an organizer or fashionable shelving unit, however what’s actually fascinating is the way it goes collectively. It’s made completely from assembling copies of a single element (two, for those who depend the brief ‘finish items’ as separate) with no fastener in sight. [Anton] made the 3D mannequin out there, so test it out for your self!
The ends of every half type a decent, spiral-shaped joint when assembled with its neighbors. Elements join solely to themselves with none want of fasteners or adhesives.
The tip result’s safe, scalable, and with a harmonious construction that may be very pleasing to take a look at. Small surprise [Anton] used it as the premise for creative work. You may see extra photos right here.
The design of the joint is predicated on the golden spiral (which it seems can also be be a fairly helpful rooster coop structure.)
The elements lend themselves fairly properly to 3D printing, and we’d prefer to take a second to understand that [Anton] shared the .step file as a substitute of simply an STL. STEP (or STP) information may be imported meaningfully into CAD packages, making it a lot simpler to include the design into one’s personal work. STEP can also be supported natively in lots of 3D printer slicers, so there’s no have to convert codecs simply to print them.
A short video describing SPIRAL is embedded just under, with a better have a look at how the items match collectively.
