Beer Can Sculptures

Beercan Rim Adapter

Update April 27, 2024

After 180 downloads, I've replaced the stl file with a new one that allows a tighter bend angle and can be used for the 3 can windmill shown in the pics.

Update, Dec 31, 2022

There's a peer reviewed article published about this form of sculpture now. The offficial site for the article is at https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.758374895150655 but you can get a free version of the article here, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366578178_Circles_for_Maths_Art_Play_and_the_Circular_Economy . (You are welcome) If you're using this article in your research, please cite me!


This Thing is an adapter which attaches to a beercan rim using an elastic band, hair elastic or glue. Adapters equispaced around the rim form regular triangles, squares, pentagons and hexagons. These shapes can then be pinned together as tessellations or all the platonic solids, that is tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icos