Feh the Floating Owl

As an assignment for George Mason University's Math 401: Mathematics Through 3D Printing, this is a print designed to float in water similarly to icebergs.

For background, this project *dives* into Archimedes' Principle. Each student was tasked to create an object to float in water with varied infill percentages to collect a large number of objects with a wide variety of cross sections and densities. The main idea is that an object should float in a fluid if the object's to fluid's density ratio is less than 1. A stable floating position should be where potential energy is at its lowest, and this can be plotted with the angle of the water line on the object.

In OpenSCAD, the process begun in designing a silhouette for the floating object. In this case, Feh the Messenger Owl from the game Fire Emblem Heroes was the model. Defined by the polygon function and a series of points, the approximately 30x30 mm owl shape can be stretched up to 60 mm using the linear_extrude function. Any