Five strand straight braid (Openscad)

prusaprinters

<p>I did a three strand braid earlier, but I wanted to experiment with higher orders. It was quite a bit harder to work out. I have included the .scad code so that anyone interested can generate similar braids.</p> <p>faces=20;</p> <p>step=5;</p> <p>for(th=[0:step:360]) {</p> <p>translate([th/PI,20*sin(th ),wave((th+168 )%180)])sphere(2,$fn=faces);</p> <p>translate([th/PI,20*sin(th+72 ),wave((th+168+72 )%180)])sphere(2,$fn=faces);</p> <p>translate([th/PI,20*sin(th+144),wave((th+168+144)%180)])sphere(2,$fn=faces);</p> <p>translate([th/PI,20*sin(th+216),wave((th+168+216)%180)])sphere(2,$fn=faces);</p> <p>translate([th/PI,20*sin(th+288),wave((th+168+288)%180)])sphere(2,$fn=faces);</p> <p>}</p> <p>function wave(th)=(((((((1.53850006563052E-16<em>th-1.27387805434208E-13)</em>th+4.34669346542468E-11)<em>th-7.88147244501425E-9)</em>th+ 8.16830636022657E-7)<em>th-4.84392712381305E-5)</em>th+1.54722865226176E-3)<em>th-2.17013888888711E-2)</em>th*th+1;</p> Category: Math