Parametric Coronavirus model

While sitting at home for about the 14th day straight, I decided to burn off a little nervous energy and make a model of that which has brought our world to a standstill.

This is a parametric, scripted model of the COV2 coronavirus.
You can make it bigger, smaller, change the size and count of the spikey glycoproteins.

This makes pretty heavy use of the hull() function to create the spikes and then randomly nudge them around the top of the "stalk" of the spike to give each one a semi-random, organic appearance.
Tweak the ring_density and density parameters to make thicker or more sparse glycoprotein covers of the underlying ball.

I whipped this up in about half an hour. I'll probably tweak it a bit over the next few days to add in some of the other proteins that are presented on the surface of the virus.

I'm not sure how printable this is. This might work better on an SLA/DLP machine than an FDM. Give it a shot and let me know how it goes.


Stay safe!