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Perpendicular Slotted Ellipses

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These are interesting because as they roll, the center of mass remains a constant height above the table! This means they roll smoothly, and have no desired resting position (unless material is >2mm thick)

From the excellent book "How Round Is Your Circle".
Blog posts:
[wgprojects - perpendicular-rolling-ellipses](http://wgprojects.blogspot.com/2014/07/perpendicular-rolling-ellipses.html)
[wgprojects - perpendicular-rolling-ellipses-2](http://wgprojects.blogspot.com/2014/07/perpendicular-rolling-ellipses-2.html )
Animation in OpenSCAD works quite well; much more obvious than when using Customizer.
I wish Thingiverse supported gif animations - check out my blog to see some.
Source
Thingiverse
What you need to print this: Beginner Low confidence
Single piece
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Assembly 0/3
Settings 1/3
Bed size 0/3
Post-process 0/3
Printer
FDM / FFF
File format
STL
Material
Software
Cura, PrusaSlicer, or similar
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