Customizable Lissajous Picture Frame, v1.0 3D model preview
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About this 3D model

With the Customizer contest as an inspiration, I took the Lissajous curves that had been sitting in my idea file for months and decided to keep the basic idea simple (a picture frame) while exploring the possibilities of a parametric design. I've used a bunch of 3d modeling tools before but working in OpenSCAD is like the VRML models I made over a decade ago. But harder. This is my first object made in OpenSCAD and my first object uploaded to Thingiverse! So here it is. Lissajous curves, or knots as I like to think of them, remind me of Celtic patterns and the horror vacui that drives so much pattern-based art. I think they make a great ornamented frame. I hope you do, too. I could not have made this so fast, if at all, without finding the clever work of Polymaker and his 2D Graphing Functions in OpenSCAD. Thank you! I've included a couple snaps of an early test build (built on a Stratasys Dimension SST 1200es at Philadelphia's NextFab Studios - less than 1 cubic inch of build material!). I altered the design a bit after the build. The design is functional, but I am still refining it. If there is enough interest I will add parametric easel legs to make it a desktop frame.