Ballerina In Petals

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While giraffes are my wife's number one favorite of all things (well, aside from me, hopefully...), ballerinas run a close second. A few years back in my early 3D printing days, I designed and printed a hand operated ballerina automata for her. Since I was most certainly not an artist, I had a friend sketch me a ballerina on paper, which I in turn scanned, traced the outline, and extruded it into a 2mm thick ballerina profile for the hand operated design. "Ballerina In Petals" is my second attempt at a ballerina themed design, using a truly 3D ballerina as opposed to a 2D extruded one. And again as I am still most certainly not an artist, this time I searched the web for a 3D modeled ballerina and found one published by Maryam Sadegh (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:761132), an unbelievably highly detailed model which, thankfully, she allows sharing with attribution. After much processing using both Meshmixer and Autodesk Fusion 360, I manipulated the feet, arms, legs and polygon count of her extraordinarily detailed model to fit within my design constraints. As usual, I probably forgot a file or two or who knows what else, so if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask as I do make mistakes in plenty. Designed using Autodesk Fusion 360, sliced using Cura 2.6.2, and printed in PLA on an Ultimaker 2+ Extended and a dual extrusion Ultimaker 3 Extended.