Supportless Sphere Puzzle V1

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This was designed so that I can create various spherical items with textures all over it's sides, but to be able to print them without supports. I created it based on the concepts of wood joinery, with Japanese wood joinery as an inspiration. Since it is broken into components it actually is kind of puzzle like. Example in the pictures was only printed at 0.2 mm. Here's to hoping someone else can find cool uses for it also. The default files and the example in the pictures have the sphere at 50 mm in diameter, so pretty small by default. The tolerances between parts is 0.1 mm currently. I printed the example picture at 0.2 mm line height. In theory, this can be scaled up and should work just fine at larger sizes. Actually when incereasing size the tolerance between pieces will become slightly less tight as it scales. In fact, I plan on scaling it up for most of my projects in the future.