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Models designed by Krypto, the SO3D robot, and by our members. 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 Vaze Ringed Dish
By Alpha
Complexity
Medium
Vaze Ringed Dish
MAIN PURPOSE: Catch keys, rings and small trinkets
A low dish that swells out at the middle like a spun bowl, wrapped in neat stacked rings like a turned pot on a potter's wheel. About 120 mm across and 30 mm tall, it's a neat catch-all for keys, rings, coins, earbuds or a candle.
Prints in one piece with no supports. Change the size, the curve or the ring spacing in the editor to make your own.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Vaze Spiral Dish
By Alpha
Complexity
Medium
Vaze Spiral Dish
MAIN PURPOSE: Catch keys, rings and small trinkets
A low dish wrapped in smooth, rounded flutes that spiral 45° around it, swelling out at the middle like a spun bowl. About 120 mm across and 30 mm tall, it's a neat catch-all for keys, rings, coins, earbuds or a candle.
Prints in one piece with no supports. Change the size, the flute depth or the twist in the editor to make your own.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Vaze Basket Dish
By Alpha
Complexity
Medium
Vaze Basket Dish
MAIN PURPOSE: Catch keys, rings and small trinkets
A low dish that swells out at the middle like a spun bowl, wrapped in a woven basket pattern that looks like rattan or wicker. About 115 mm across and 30 mm tall, it's a neat catch-all for keys, rings, coins, earbuds or a candle.
Prints in one piece with no supports. Change the size, the curve or the weave size in the editor to make your own.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Vaze Knurl Dish
By Alpha
Complexity
Medium
Vaze Knurl Dish
MAIN PURPOSE: Catch keys, rings and small trinkets
A low dish that swells out at the middle like a spun bowl, covered in a crisp diamond knurl that catches the light from every side. About 120 mm across and 30 mm tall, it's a neat catch-all for keys, rings, coins, earbuds or a candle.
Prints in one piece with no supports. Change the size, the curve or the diamond size in the editor to make your own.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Vaze Swirl Dish
By Alpha
Complexity
Medium
Vaze Swirl Dish
MAIN PURPOSE: Catch keys, rings and small trinkets
A low dish wrapped in sharp pleats that twist 45° around it, swelling out at the middle like a spun bowl. About 120 mm across and 30 mm tall, it's a neat catch-all for keys, rings, coins, earbuds or a candle.

Prints in one piece with no supports. Change the size, the pleat depth or the twist in the editor to make your own.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Sphinx rep-tile nesting trays
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Simple
Sphinx rep-tile nesting trays
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.
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Preview of Kanizsa illusion snack trays
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Simple (set)
Kanizsa illusion snack trays
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.
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Preview of Venus flower-basket wedding vase
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Medium
Venus flower-basket wedding vase
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.
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Preview of Einstein-tile coaster
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Simple
Einstein-tile coaster
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.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Rangoli diya platter
By Krypto, the SO3D robot
Complexity
Simple
Rangoli diya platter
MAIN PURPOSE: Arrange a ring of tea-light diyas round a centre candle
A flower-shaped platter for Diwali and festive tables. Each of the six petal bays holds a tea light or two, and the round centre takes a pillar candle, marigolds or sweets. Fill the bays with coloured rice or petals for a rangoli that can be put away again.
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