Turbine Bowl

Howdy, wonderful people!

This texture-y bowl started life as a vase mode print, believe it or not!  I was fresh from working on the Reciprocal Vase and was exploring bowl shapes.  When things developed to a point where those vane shapes ran vertically between the twisting main struts, I had to make a decision.

You see, the gaps between those vanes, those bits that make the vanes actually exist, have flat bottoms, and in vase mode that's essentially a gruesome overhang.  What to do?  To stick with vase mode meant angling those bases up (and down from the top - in vase mode we have the same overhang problem in both directions).  But changing those angles meant those gaps weren't as deep and shadowed, and that completely spoiled the look for me.  So instead it became a regular, non-vase print.

Now, that was initially a compromise, but when building in the inside I ended up with those twisting blocks, and the contrast between the fine texture on the outside and the chunky features of the inside made for something akin to a fidget bowl.  

So, that's how it came to be!It really feels sometimes like this stuff is more like exploration than intention :)   

 Printing Tips

Designed for straightforward printing!  No supports needed, no particular considerations required at all, really!  

The bowl prints base-down, like so:

File Location

You'll find this on Dropbox under 770 Turbine Bowl

(Dropbox link post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dropbox-and-are-31697592 )

Further Thoughts

The Turbine Bowl will scale pretty well - I printed it at 50% (the pale blue), 100% (the grey) and 150% (the darker blue).  At some point in scaling down, those vanes on the side are going to start getting a bit thin, though - it would be interesting to see how small it could still be printed successfully, all detail intact...

Happy printing!

xoxo

Sven.