Getting into the holiday spirit here, I got it in my mind to print a spiral (helical?) sphere ornament. I was partially inspired by @jimhami42 in this post. At the end of the day I had some trouble merging the shapes into an outer shell with this method, still exploring that. I tried several other ways and a few different extensions for generating this with mixed success but ended up with a method that is almost all native tools. I did have to do a bit of tedious clean up of some odd internal face “artifacts” left over from the outer shell process. It was a bit maddening at times chasing down the solid errors but I got there in the end. Clearly, there is room to improve my process.
This is where I need @Box to show up with one of his brilliant little GIFs whipping one out in 10 seconds. Seriously, I would love to learn a bit by seeing other peoples methods for this shape, but the final sphere you make has to be “shiney” 
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Anyway, now I’m refining the shape and playing with variations. Here is an extra thick double spiral version printed today. Happy Holidays!
