Several of these lamp shades were designed and printed over time — some in Fusion 360, one in Solidworks, mostly as an exercise in learning how to create organic shapes through lofting along a path. Get that right and you can produce some surprisingly interesting forms. They're printed in spiral/vase mode, which means the whole shade is one continuous line — no layer changes, no infill, just a thin translucent shell that prints fast and glows beautifully when lit.

The results are scattered around the house. Not all of them are pretty — the blue one is admittedly a bit rough — but that's exactly the point. Each one is a step in getting better at the technique, at understanding how a shape reads in translucent filament, and at pushing what a simple desktop printer can do with the right settings.