Infiniscoots (Patreon)

Thank you to those of you who reported back on your scutoid tests from last post! We could still use more input so I encourage you to try making some if you haven't already.

1. Infiniscoots

This week we have another net pair, two scutoids that can tile infinitely to fill space:

Here's the PDF version which is recommended if you want to be sure your infiniscoots will be compatible with other people's infiniscoots.

The original design comes from JohnPep on thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3042446 

As with earlier nets, Laura Taalman and Tom Ruen converted the shape from 3d model to flat polygons, and then I tweaked and arranged the net to hopefully be optimal for a printable paper project.

In an earlier test I tried to keep some of the curvature in the original model by just adding a couple extra seams:

It's not too hard to make them with the extra curvature, but they don't fit together nicely so I went with a single-face design again.

Try some with your friends and see if they all scoot together! It's fun to puzzle them together into different arrangements.

Another note: one of these scutoids has top and bottom faces of 4 and 5, rather than 5 and 6. I think, given that "scutoid" lacks a formal definition, this is within the range of things that can be called scutoids in my book.

2. Vacation!!!!

My long-awaited actual-vacation is finally here! Well, tomorrow. So expect not to hear from me next week.

But the week after I'll be back, hopefully recharged and ready to start scripting some scutoid videos. I wanna get these scoots in the hands of all the humans!

Vi