**Get Ready to Build with Our Terrain Blocks!**

🏞️ **Create Your Own World:**
These building blocks are perfect for creating unique terrains with endless possibilities. Whether you're building dioramas for Kinder Surprise Figures, My Little Pony, or our Low Poly Pokémon, there are millions of combinations! No gluing required—just use adhesive putty (blue tack) to keep figures in place.

🔧 **Design Features:**
The texture on each tile is made by printing the pattern in the first layer and filling the surface in the next, ensuring an authentic look. The grid matches the shape of the terrain pieces, making placement easy and intuitive. The tiles blend together in a low poly style, offering a dynamic look from every angle!

🌍 **Terrain Textures:**
Choose from a variety of textures to create your perfect landscape:
- Grass
- Water
- Lava
- Rocky
- City
- Desert (A and B tiles can be combined to form sand dunes in an ABAB pattern)
- Blank (ideal for still water or as a simple, basic tile in any color).

📦 **What's Included:**
The download includes STL and 3MF files for the Prusa MK3S Printer, with pre-adjusted slicer settings and optimal print bed placement for your convenience.

📏 **Size:**
At 100% scale, the models fit on a 165 mm printer bed. We also offer a smaller version (4x3 tiles) designed for the Prusa Mini.

⚙️**3D Printing Settings:**
Follow these settings for the best results when printing your terrain tiles:

- Layer height: 0.2 mm
- No supports needed
- Minimum perimeters: 1
- Advanced Mode for slicer settings:
     - First Layer: 0.5 mm (for lava and hills)
     - Perimeters and external perimeters: 0.48 mm
     - Bridge Flow Ratio: 1

For other features like trees, rocks, and grass, feel free to adjust settings to your liking. We recommend enabling retractions only for crossing perimeters on grass tiles.

✨ **Membership Perks:**
Check out our membership options for savings, exclusive benefits, or a commercial license.

**Let’s print and display your collection together! 🎨**

This model is fan-made, crafted with care. We’re not affiliated with any official brands.

We also create many other fun designs at [3Demon](https://3d-mon.com/links/)!

Display Area Low Poly Building Blocks

Dispay_Area_snow_Polymon.stl

Dispay_Area_blank_Polymon.stl

Dispay_Area_Grid_Normal_5x4_Polymon.stl

Dispay_Area_Tree_crown_3Demon.stl

Dispay_Area_Tree_terrain_blank_3Demon.stl

Dispay_Area_Tree_terrain_grass_3Demon.stl

Dispay_Area_Tree_trunk_3Demon.stl

If you’re bored of Lego, this 3D printed self-interlocking construction block will break your brain. It takes minutes to print, months to figure out!

See here for video for demonstrates of the concepts outlined below: https://youtu.be/j10wzy0qGOg 

Officially known as an “SL Block,” this octocube shape is part of a family of “topologically interlocking assemblies,” that is, shapes that hold together without the use of connectors or adhesives to form self-interlocking structures. Self-interlocking structures have interesting architectural and engineering applications.

A ends of a single “SL” block resemble an “S” and an “L.”. In assembly, SL blocks always occur in pairs, called a “Conjugate Pair.” In the pictures and video, conjugate pairs are shown with one white and one black piece.

Conjugate pairs lock together in six different ways, called “engagements,” to form “SL Strands.” Each type of engagement adds a unique translation or rotation to the SL Strand. The six types of engagements are denoted as “h,” “t,” “s,” “d,” “a” and “y.”

Using this system, the SL strands can be represented as strings consisting of six letters that stand for
the six types of engagements.


The first example in the video is an “h4” SL Strand. “h” engagements are straight with no rotations or translations, so the strand is straight.

The next example is an “a4” SL Strand. “a” engagements create a 90 degree rotation but no translations, so the “a4” strand makes a closed, cube-shaped structure.

The final examples in the videos show more complicated “(as2)4” and “(dth)4” strands. These modules can then be connected to form larger and increasingly complex self-interlocking structures.

Is your brain broken yet? Interested in learning more? Start here:
https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2018/bridges2018-107.pdf


Brain Breaker Blocks

These interlocking tiles are derived from the recently discovered “Einstein Aperiodic Monotile.” An aperiodic tile covers two-dimensional space in such a way as to create infinite patterns that never repeat. Until recently, the existence of an aperiodic monotile was purely theoretical. But here it is!
 
Tiles are provided with or without an embossed Einstein face. Use the plain files to make your own remixes!

See here for video: https://youtu.be/LX8urkEtsWk 

This tile set is an artistic interpretation of the real Einstein Monotile. There are a few caveats for the math purists in the room.

Firstly, the real Einstein Monotile tiling system (“The Hat”) is composed of mirrored versions of the same shape. In this design, the process of making the pieces interlocking results in the two versions looking quite different. Even though they look different, they are derived from the same reference geometry and so follow the same rules for tiling.

Secondly, the “Einstein the Monotile” has nothing to do with “Einstein the Physicist.” The word “einstein” is German for “one stone,” referring to the challenge of finding a single tile that would tile space aperiodically. In this design, the geometry needed to make the pieces interlocking just looked like Einstein’s messy hair, so I embraced the wordplay and went for it.

This shape was discovered in March 2023 by mathematicians David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss. They refer to the shape as “The Hat.” You can learn more here: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/ 

The “face” is a remix from “Albert Einstein Support Free” by Thangs user “kk11243234567891”. 




Interlocking Einstein Monotile

Interlocking Einstein Monotile  1 with face.stl

Download includes two versions: one for standard printing, and one for printing in spiralized mode. 

Print a bunch with gradient filament to get a lovely lounge of linking lizards!

The spiralized version gives a nice scale pattern and looks better with translucent filament. 


Tessellating Escher Lizards

Tesselating Excher Lizard - Spiralized Printing.stl

I designed these folding boxes after playing Arkham Horror and Elder Sign many times. These games, like many others, paper your gaming surface with many decks of cards as they require several players to distribute cards while keeping track of their own character cards. That said, this is a common issue for board games so these card boxes can be scaled for your needs.

This page contains two versions of this box: the standard size, and tall version. The tall version is 2x the height of the standard size.

Key benefits of this design:
- It's print in place so you get the lid and box bottom hinged together
- There is a small off-set on the spine so when they are laying flat in a row, they link together and can be moved as a group
- The lid is handy for discards, so to reset the deck, you simply close the lid
- There is a grid of holes in the lid so you can see which deck is inside the box without opening the box (though you can put labels on the spine as well
- There is a large hole on the bottom to allow you to easily pop the cards out
- There is a small protrusion of plastic on the lid which fits into a recess on the bottom for a satisfying click
- All of the holes also reduce plastic use

These have been thoroughly play-tested and are described as being an essential tool for many of the games we play.

Enjoy and game on!

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