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1. muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 20:44:36 UTC muesli

   Organic supports never cease to amaze me! #3dprinting

   • George Rawlinson (grawlinson@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 22:54:22 UTC George Rawlinson

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom check out my weird rejects #3dprinting

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 22:59:09 UTC muesli

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     • George Rawlinson

     @grawlinson

     Kinda mesmerising really 🌲🌲🌲

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 23:09:38 UTC muesli

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     • Wolf480pl

     @wolf480pl

     It's a support structure generated by the slicer, which due to its branching nature typically results in less wasted material and a faster print time.

   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 23:09:39 UTC Wolf480pl

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom is this purposefully made to look like trees, or is that just optimal shape for some reasonable metric?

   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 23:35:47 UTC Wolf480pl

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom less or least?

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 23:35:47 UTC muesli

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     • Wolf480pl

     @wolf480pl

     "Least" is hard to define in this case, as it's always a trade-off between print quality and support material used.

     You can tweak several parameters of the algorithm in your slicer to make it use even less material, but it's typically not worth it as the rate of print failures and defective models would increase too quickly.

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 23:41:09 UTC muesli

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     • Wolf480pl

     @wolf480pl

     Yes, you're absolutely right. Some slicers even call them "tree-style supports" for that reason.

   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 23:41:10 UTC Wolf480pl

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom well, least material for a given load.

     They look awfully like plants and I suspect that's because plants are optimizing the same metrics