Spiral twist combining easter eggs

April 16, 2025
Description
Combinable colourful easter eggs. The parts twist together in multiple different ways to make colourful patterned eggs.
Inspired by Jakub Lattenberg's similar design
There are 5 parts. Sorry about the weird numbering.
- Parts 2 & 3 are a core that the other parts twist into.
- Part 2 is a “Pine cone” style version of part 3, making it fit parts in 2 directions
- Parts 1 & 5 is a simple spiral outer which fits into parts 2 & 3
- Part 1 is a “Pine cone” style version of part 5, which fits parts 2 and 3, but when combined with part 2, the pine cone diamonds line up, leaving space for part 4
- Part 4 is an outer version of part 3, designed to fit into the gaps left by parts 1 + 2 combined
You can combine these parts in the ways above to create multiple patterns of diamonds and stripes.
In the images, they have been coloured as:
- White
- Light blue
- Dark blue
- Green
- Yellow
I will add more images of them combined very soon
All of the “Pine cone” style parts will need lots of supports and may be more fragile, with all other parts hopefully not needing any.
I made this model quite quickly, so I haven't had time yet to try printing any, but the tolerances should hopefully be large enough. If they aren't, tell me, I will try to make a larger tolerance version, or you can fiddle with your slicer settings.
Sorry about some of the weird gaps, I was quite rushed making it.
Please post a make of your prints!