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Models shared by the SO3D.xyz community. Open any of them in the generator to see exactly how it was built, remix it, or print it as-is. Browse the model library by category

Preview of Fanous-style Ramadan lantern
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Light up iftar with a traditional-style lantern
A tall four-sided lantern in the spirit of the Egyptian fanous, with cut-out voronoi walls and a hanging ring on top of the lid. Put an LED tea light inside and it throws patterned light across the room at iftar.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Pillar candle pedestal with chevron band
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Lift a pillar or LED candle on a fluted pedestal
A shallow ring cup for a pillar or LED candle, with a chevron band round the rim and a radial-fluted pedestal under it.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Low-poly faceted pedestal bowl
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Show a sculptural bowl on a shelf or table
A faceted, low-poly bowl on a stout pedestal. A bold decorative piece that looks the same from every side.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Voronoi hanging lantern with ring-handle lid
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Hang or carry a tealight lantern
A tall round lantern with organic cell-shaped openings cut through the wall and a lid with a ring handle to hang or carry it. Light shows through in a cellular pattern.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Twisted spiral-flute bud vase
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Show dried stems in a twisted vase
A slim vase with ridges that twist up the wall like a twisted glass vase. Holds a jar insert or dried stems.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Spiral-flute potpourri jar with heart-hole lid
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Let the scent of dried flowers drift out through heart holes
A round jar with twisted ridges all round and a screw lid pierced with little hearts, so the scent of potpourri, dried lavender or a scented cotton ball drifts out.
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Preview of Sphinx rep-tile nesting trays
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Fill one sphinx-shaped tray exactly with four smaller trays of the same shape
Very few shapes are rep-tiles, shapes that four copies of themselves can tile into a bigger copy of the same shape. The sphinx, six triangles in a lopsided trapezoid, is one of the strangest, found in the 1960s. Print one big tray and four half-size trays: the four small sphinxes fit perfectly inside the big one (turn two of them over), and each of those could in turn be filled with four even smaller ones, forever. A desk tray that doubles as a puzzle.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Kanizsa illusion snack trays
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple (set)
MAIN PURPOSE: Set four notched trays together and a bright square appears that is not there
Put four of these round trays in a square with their notches pointing inwards and a bright white square appears between them, with crisp edges that do not exist. It is the Kanizsa illusion: your brain fills in the outline of a shape it expects to see. Fill them with snacks and watch guests swear the square is there. Cats seem to see it too: in a 2021 citizen-science study, pet cats sat in the invisible square about as often as in a real one.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Venus flower-basket wedding vase
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Hold wedding flowers in a lattice vase modelled on a deep-sea glass sponge
The Venus flower basket is a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton of glass lattice so strong that engineers copied it for the Gherkin in London. A pair of tiny shrimp swim in when young, grow too big to leave, and live inside together for life, so in Japan the dried sponge is a traditional wedding gift. This tall, round-cornered vase has the same diagonal lattice cut right through its walls; drop a test tube inside, add two stems for the couple, and the light pours through the walls.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Einstein-tile coaster
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Protect the table with coasters in the one shape that tiles without repeating
In 2023 an amateur mathematician found the shape people had searched for since the 1960s: the "hat", a single tile that covers a plane completely but never in a repeating pattern. Mathematicians call it an einstein, from the German for one stone. Each coaster is one hat. Lay a set out on the table and they fit together endlessly without the pattern ever repeating. It is a conversation piece, a puzzle and a coaster at once.
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