Snub Archimedean Pencil Holders

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Here are four pencil holders, two based on the snub cube and two on the snub dodecahedron. A fifth has been added - a snub cube composed of spheres and hypocycloids - see image. Of the Archimedean solids only the snub cube and the snub dodecahedron occur in mirror image pairs. OpenSCAD has a "mirror" command which makes the alternate forms easy to generate. Four stl files are provided: snub_cube_l.stl and snub.cube_r.stl snub_dodecahedron_l.stl and snub_dodecahedron_r.stl together with the openSCAD code that generated them. Instructions All the files can be printed directly on the build platform. The snub cube prints particularly well with little overhang. The mirror relating the two forms falls between the left and right hand print in the image above. There is a fountain containing a snub cube at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena - see http://www.publicartinla.com/sculptures/caltech/polyhedron_fount.html It looks to correspond to snub_cube_l.stl?