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The dodecahedral version of RadioWeb (aka Radiolarian 6)
The Radio Flare is a dodecahedral shape trasnformation of Jason Smith's RadioWeb (aka Radiolarian 6). This time the corners turn.
It's named like this because the decagons at the center of each face with their petals look like suns and the outer petals then expand out to form more of a star shape. To the inventor the pattern looks like a bunch of big flares coming off of the sun.
Like other puzzles mid-way through the radiolarian series there are two types of jumbling, there are larger blocks of pieces that jumble like on the radiolarian 3 and smaller blocks of pieces around the edges (like on radiolarians 4.5 through 9) that also jumble.
Assembly was a hassle. The decagons and large corners interfere with snapping the pieces into place to finish the middle (radiolarian 3) layer so the inventor swapped one standard corner for one with a removable cap. The cap covers a screw which connects to a stem from the bottom layer of the part. This gives just enough room to assemble the middle layer of pieces by pressing them into place. Once that's done one can screw on the top of the last corner then cover the screw setup with the cap.
It is a massive puzzle. Its size allow for a decent-sized connection between some of the outer petal pieces and the small petals on the middle (radiolarian 3) layer.
It was printed on the Anycubic Kobra Neo using a mix of Polymaker PolyMax PLA and Inland Tough PLA. These two types of filament are practically interchangeable, but the Inland brand stuff is significantly cheaper. The inventor used a (standard) .2mm layer height, .4mm nozzle and .5 mm extrusion width. Cura's updated tree supports we're especially helpful (at least for now they're only available in their 5.3 alpha release, not even in the actual 5.3 release). Setting Cura's slicing tolerance to "exclusive" is also great for making things fit precisely.
The stickers were printed by Jason Gavril.
Diameter (inner): 156 mm
Weigh: 1358 grams
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Radio Flare
