Printable Wikipedia Globe pieces.
I have printed WikipediaGlobePrintIndent.stl in Acrylic plastic through ShapeWays
It worked well enough, and I managed to build the puzzle globe but the pieces are actually a bit thin to work well as a puzzle, so I designed a thicker version. Wikipedia globe letters.blend I've kept the pieces in a globe orientation so that it's easy to make the pieces thinner or fatter, or to indent or outdent the letters, by scaling the respective vertices relative to the origin. I have written a Blender Python script to apply the required modification. I've also arranged the pieces for printing: the globe position is frame 1, and various arrangements are available along the timeline.
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