Morph Ball!

My first Thingiverse design is a Metroid/Tron mashup for plotting on spheres!

Want to see a 15:1 timelapse of the blue ball being made? Of course you do!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwzBYi5POJA

Mostly copied from the video's description:

The style worked very well for learning some new features in Inkscape! Most notably grid-snapping and tiled cloning (tessellations). :)

Design and prototyping was done in one night, with most of the prototype balls only taking a minute or so to plot because they were done as outlines only. The final 2 balls took about 11 minutes each due to the large fills.

The timelapse was taken at 1 photo per second, and played back at 15 fps. Unfortunately, this 15:1 time scale is basically as low as my phone can go while producing a decent movie. :P

BONUS! If you look closely, you can see a small wake behind the pen where the ink is drying!

BONUS! It's ridiculously tempting to even take the current design and plot it onto one of those moto