Project Shellter - Oxystele

UPDATE 2011-12-13 07:23
Kylie Karshellian adopted a print of this shell today! See it happen here with annotations and music: http://youtu.be/LtvlLBQnEc0
UPDATE 2011-12-07 21:35
Kendall Karshellian adopted a print of this shell today! See it happen here: http://youtu.be/QpCusZ_q0ww
UPDATE 2011-12-04 19:11
The original oxystele.stl had spiral holes in it. After running it through http://cloud.netfabb.com the holes are gone. If you downloaded the file before, please re-download it.
Another one of M. B. Cortie's greatest hits http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/009784939390054D!
Modeled on the shell of the Oxystele sinensis sea snail, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxystele_sinensis, will Coenobita clypeatus - "Purple Pincher" - hermit crabs like this? Only experimentation will tell!
It was created using Maya's shellNode plugin, which is based upon Cortie's model, and thickened using Blender's Solidify modifier http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/ble