3D-printed Dragon Curve
Once I stumbled upon a big glass box in the middle of the App in the Air office. I asked, "What is it?" Turned out it was a 3D printer. An expensive one. I didn't get a believable answer about what this thing was for, but I got permission to play with it.
One day I'll tell you the story of my first 3D model in life - it's epic. Now the small story is about the Dragon Curve. Unfortunately, I'm not educated enough to write the whole story about this object, but it is certainly worth your time if you are a fan of math. The Dragon Curve can be obtained by folding and unfolding a strip of paper, as a recursive procedure, as powering up complex numbers...
This model I created myself by writing a small Python program which calculates the path for a Dragon Curve - the easy part - and makes a 3D model out of it - the slightly trickier part. The output of this program was an .stl file, then conversion to gcode, and finally printing this thing out.
I really appreciate the chance to play with this machine. Thanks, Sergey, Bayram!