Each of these shapes is less than 2 inches and took less than an hour to print. Much more immediate gratification than fancy large prints!
Whereas the one below took 12 hours and fell over in the middle to produce a large mess. The second image shows how this a side view to see that the plot had gotten more than 2 inches tall.
A side note being that the FlashForge home printer seems to be better calibrated than the Makerbot 2X at the university. On an identical protractor print (not shown), the writing was unreadable on the work print and perfect on the home print. Have not figured out if it's an inherent problem or can be fixed.
Follow up 1/16/15: The animals were shown around to 6th graders and were met with unbelievable enthusiasm. I had already shown my mathematical prints to one of them. Reaction "I didn't realize that the printer could make such fun stuff too!"
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