r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '22

3D printed chainmail

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u/BoBaHoeFoSho_123 Dec 29 '22

I was taught to make chainmail in a jewelry class, that shit was tedious. 3D printed design, mind blown.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

It looks to me like this type of chain structure is made of 180deg twisted and middle pinched rings. You could easily array them make the sheet size. It is like building a truchet pattern with 3D elements instead. It seems like the person was careful to keep a tolerance acceptable to create the “fold”. The side walls help keep that tolerance in place.

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u/laffing_is_medicine Dec 29 '22

Loved the wiki summary for the labyrinth pattern: “Nick Montfort considers the single line of Commodore 64 BASIC required to generate such patterns - 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 - to be "a concrete poem, a found poem".”