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Brass Stanford Bunny, printed by Isaac Dietz

As with every holiday calendar event that rolls through the T-verse, the approach of Easter this coming Sunday has been the inspiration for a number of outstanding seasonal objects contributed to Thingiverse.com. Ethan featured Zydac’s cute Eggbunny last week¹, but check out some of the other great offerings. (Thingiverse-tagged as “easter.”)

HASENFRANZ Easter Bunny Cookie Cutter by elk

There are a few cookie cutter options, including Elk‘s Easter Bunny Cookies and brettjones Easter Bunny Cookie Cutter. (Make your own cookie cutters by using guru‘s Cookie Cutter Generator v2!) Stage your stained/painted/chocolate eggs in bpijls‘s BunnyCup – Bunny Footed Egg Holder. Of particular usefulness to those of you working with OpenSCAD to design Easter-flavored objects, you’ll want to grab nicholasclewis‘s Parametric Egg and take a look at TeamTeamUSA‘s impressive Virtual Easter Eggs color/multi-print assembly project for ideas and parts for your OpenSCAD or MeshMixer masterpieces. Also, if your Easter egg hunt actually involves firearms, don’t forget vik‘s Egg-Shaped Target.²

And this doesn’t even get us started with the t-verse’s prolifically breeding colony of Standford bunnies….

Stanford Bunny

Stanford Bunny, printed by mah_digilife

The Stanford Bunny model has a venerable computer visualization pedigree previous to becoming one of the more iconic Thingiverse first objects for printing or mashing-up. The bunny is but one of the more popular models from the Stanford 3D Scanning Repository, a collection of high resolution scans made available by Greg Turk and Marc Levoy in 1994 to assist computer scientists working with mesh tools who do not have access to high resolution scanning hardware. According to the Bunny’s Wikipedia article, the Bunny was scanned from a ceramic figuring, and “consists of data describing 69,451 triangles.”

Here’s an intriguing note from the scanners about their models:

As you browse this repository and think about how you might use our 3D models and range datasets, please remember that several of these artifacts have religious or cultural significance. Aside from the buddha, which is a religious symbol revered by hundreds of millions of people, the dragon is a symbol of Chinese culture, the Thai statue contains elements of religious significance to Hindus, and Lucy is a Christian angel; statues like her are commonly seen in Italian churches. Keep your renderings and other uses of these particular models in good taste. Don’t animate or morph them, don’t apply Boolean operators to them, and don’t simulate nasty things happening to them (like breaking, exploding, melting, etc.). Choose another model for these sorts of experiments. (You can do anything you want to the Stanford bunny or the armadillo.)³

Well, thank goodness for this, as the Stanford Bunny, as brought into Thingiverse very early on from Operator archiveman and then cleaned up for easier printing by phooky, has become along with the Gangsta one of the most frequently mashed-up and manipulated base models. It is even a base model in Ryan Schmidt’s wildly useful MeshMixer app.⁴

So when you are looking for treats to print this week (or this year, given that this is the Year of the Rabbit), don’t overlook gpvillamil’s Tron bunny, mrbug’s Bunny Trouble game or Optime Bunnyus, mifga’s Rabbitsta, and of course phooky’s printable-classic Stanford Bunny. My favorite Standford Bunny print involves simply taking phooky’s model and scaling it to 0.4 or 0.5 in ReplicatorG for execution with a Stepstruder MK6.

The Original Egg-Bot

While the Original Egg-Bot kits are currently back-ordered at Evil Mad Science, we still have a number of the kits in stock. Finding chocolate Easter eggs hidden in the backyard is one thing … but what if your love ones discovered a kit for building a robot to plot artwork on egg-shells on their Easter egg hunt?

A t-verse catalog of several compelling Easter-related models follows after the jump.

HASENFRANZ Easter Bunny Cookie Cutter by elk

"Hasenfranz" is a neat bunny-cookie cutter that will let you cut nice easter cookies :) Mjummy!! Print out and feel free to use it on your desired cookies mixture!

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BunnyCup - The Bunny Footed Egg Holder by bpijls

To get in the spirit of the season, here's an egg holder for you.

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Easter Bunny Cookie Cutter by brettjones

Just a cute little cookie cutter for Easter. My wife is using it to cut up cheese, ham and turkey for a group of toddlers. Please excuse the picture of the food - I think my wife was really hungry will taking it with her cell phone and couldn't keep her hand still! :D

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Eggbunny by Zydac

This isn't just an Eggbunny- it is a groundbreaking statement about the human condition, a critique of contemporary praxis in the post-digital era and a jelly bean holder as well!

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Bunny Trouble game by mrbug

This is a clone of the Gen 42 game "Army of Frogs" using the Tron Bunny (a derivative of the Stanford Bunny) for its pieces.

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Virtual Easter Eggs by TeamTeamUSA

Green eggs and SCAD! In observance of the upcoming holiday and Dr Seuss' just-passed 107th birthday (2011-03-02), here are a couple virtual colored eggs (no more PAAS stained fingers!):vimeo.com/21636073 This is yet another example of coloring and animating with OpenSCAD. You can also tweak the file to print out the various parts in different colored plastic and assemble.

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Egg-Shaped Target by vik

A simple target in the shape of an Easter Egg, to assist with upcoming training for the Easter Egg Hunt. Remember: Unlike real Easter Eggs, you should only practise on these targets with plastic Airsoft BB's. Unless you just get a kick out of blowing things to smithereens.

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Optime Bunnyus by mrbug

Tron Bunny + "Optime Primus" = Optime Bunnyus!

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Tron bunny by gpvillamil

This is a variation on the Stanford Bunny, loaded into Meshlab and then lo-rezzed using Quadratic Decimation.

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Rabbitsta by mifga

A mash-up of: * Stanford Bunny by archiveman (Thing #406, though using later cleaned up models) * Gangsta by yzorg (Thing #5367) I'm tempted to clean up that collar -- but will probably print first to get a sense of where I am so far.

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Day 11: Bunny! by coasterman

Bunny by coasterman [created with 3DTin] A cute little 3DTin bunny.

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happy easter by johnd

old world script reading happy easter for eggbot

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Stanford Bunny by phooky

A cleaned-up Stanford Bunny, with the holes in the model sealed.

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Easter Bunny by guru

I just designed and printed an easter bunny for the makerbot the blend file is available at local-guru.net/blog/2010/03/21/3d-printer-easter-bunny

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1. an instant “I must print!” design [↩]
2. A note from Vik’s Thingiverse post: “Unlike real Easter Eggs, you should only practise on these targets with plastic Airsoft BB’s – Unless you just get a kick out of blowing things to smithereens” [↩]
3. Ed. My emphasis. [↩]
4. MeshMixer is back in active development now — grab the latest version for Mac or PC and add some literal Easter eggs to your other models [↩]