When I appear at conventions or other events, I like to display 3D printed models depicting vehicles or other objects from my stories. These help, I hope, attract potential readers’ eyes.
I’m pleased to announce the addition of a new item to my collection.
Behold the pyramidal seastead from the cover of The Seastead Chronicles! My publisher, Pole to Pole Publishing, used a cover image designed by an artist known as 3000ad.
I engaged the services of a 3D-printing designer named Duane Corpe to create a 3D version of that pyramid. Not only did he produce a wonderful model, but he made it big enough that I can put a puck light inside and make the pyramid glow.
The odd shapes on the outside of the pyramid proved a difficult challenge. Much of 3D printing design involves combining existing shapes first developed by others. For the sinuous, over- and under-lapping features you see on the pyramid’s outer surface, no previous models existed. I don’t know how Duane did it, but he created a fantastic display piece!
In previous blogposts, I’ve shown off the other models in my collection. See this submarine, this Martian tripod fighting machine, this replica of Plato’s Ring of Gyges, this Ottoman spacecraft, this clockwork lion, and this airship.
Almost forgot. When you’re done gawking at the 3D pyramid, consider buying and reading the book The Seastead Chronicles, written by—
Poseidon’s Scribe
