Blizzard of Customizable, Mailable Snowflake Ornaments: with Kickstarter! by laird

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Snowflakes are unique. Now so are snowflake ornaments! So why print one ornament when you can have a Blizzard!
I'm making a unique line of 2014 Kickstarter snowflakes. If you'd like to back this 3D printed art project, see https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laird/snowburst-2014 . The project video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlOK49rwcew&feature=youtu.be .
This Thing is customizable and can generate:
Snowball ornaments, an arrangement of three intersecting snowflakes to print and hang.
Snowflake ornaments, flat snowflakes to hang.
Snowflakes, perfect for scattering around for decoration.
Prints quickly and easily out of PLA, for ecologically friendly snowflake ornaments!
I'm printing and mailing them to my friends and relatives for Xmas. They're specifically designed to be mailable flat, then (for the 'snowballs') assembled by the recipient. Print the snowball assembly instructions at https://docs.google.com/a/popk.in/drawings/d/1N98OkbFxATnuw_ZJArYcHN3YTW1GWePNyFZi0X45olo and send them to your recipient.
The ornaments aren't going to blow off your tree. It was blowing up a storm, and as you can see http://youtu.be/EulzPW4e3Nc
and the clips held just fine.
I created these because, between the wind and the temperature, these are the only interesting snowflakes we're going to see here in Florida.
UPDATED:
Improved rendering performance (thanks, Michael@Oz)
Added "Lithophane of snowflake", which look very nice when backlit. (Removed: I'll make this a different ornament)
Made "hexagons" varying number of sides, giving more variety to the snowflakes.
Made 'hexagon' widths slightly random
added 'minthickness' tweak, so you can set this to ensure that all lines are thick enough to print and remove from the print bed on your printer. By default some lines can be 0.6mm, which is one extruded line. Making this 1.0 ensure that thin lines are two extruded lines, etc.
added another digit to the label so that you can use a date (DDMMYYYY) so you can generate birthday snowflakes.
Assembly instructions: https://docs.google.com/a/popk.in/drawings/d/1N98OkbFxATnuw_ZJArYcHN3YTW1GWePNyFZi0X45olo .
Added "Snowflake Ornament" part, which has a hook and snowflake number
Made inner hexagon random.