Comment on probably a religious or ritual object
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 week agoNot really. I’ve been in the 3d printing hobby for about 5 years and I couldn’t pick that model out of a line-up of other similar models; it does not stand out at all, let alone in the same league as 3d Benchy. Also, archeologists can probably understand why vases exist and won’t have to debate it. Finally, that model has under 10k downloads, Benchy has over half a million downloads (Also on printables, no way to track both models across everywhere they’ve ever been hosted).
riskable@programming.dev 1 week ago
That vase shows up everywhere. It was on Thingiverse for years before Printables even existed.
If you browse filaments on Amazon right now you’re likely to see that vase model as an example of the filament in the pictures.
If you go on etsy, you’ll see that vase being sold and has been sold there for years.
To showcase fancy filaments, YouTubers will often print that specific vase.
It’s been printed millions of times worldwide.
That vase was featured on Daily Dose of Internet twice (not that that matters much but it’s an interesting thing considering that Daily Dose doesn’t usually care about 3D prints).
If you’ve been in the hobby for five years but don’t know about that vase, you’ve been living under a rock.
I actually asked Gemini for an estimate of how many prints of that model exist worldwide and it said “1.5 million and 3.5 million prints”. Based on all of Google’s collected statistics about it on the Internet.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Benchy was originally released in 2015, and had over 1/4 of a million downloads from Thingiverse in under 2 years. It was the number one model on Thingiverse, and still is the most popular of all time (this vase isn’t in the first 10 pages). They have unfortunately reset their statistics since then so there is no way to know how many downloads it has had total.