A 24 Sided Die With 6 Sides? Tesseract Inspired Die With 24 Possible Outcomes. 3D Printer Model

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Summary

This is a 6 sided Die with Tesseract (aka Hypercube) like features. A real Tesseract has 24 faces: 6 outer, 6 inner, 12 inside as typically configured. I left the outer and inner faces open and used the two sides of each of the 12 inside faces to hold a number to get a cube with 4 inner faces on each of the 6 sides (4*6=24 faces). I use an inner spindle object that will randomly fall towards one of the numbers with each toss. So this is a 6 sided Die with 24 possible outcomes.

Fun Fact: You may know that the sum of any two opposite faces on a normal 6 sided Die is 7. The Sum of all numbers on any two opposite faces on this 24 outcome Die is 100.

Does the 24 sided Tesseract have an opposite for each face?

There is another pattern that gets you a sum of 100 starting with any number - can you figure it out? Hint: Pick any number and travel around the equator (middle section), summing as you go.

This thing might even help you understand the 4th dimension - I'm still working on 1, 2 and 3D.

For kicks here is an animated model of a Tesseract posted by Hahnsolo420:

The STL has sliced and printed with great success on both Cura and Simplify3D. I've successfully scaled and printed this thing down to a 50% scale - which is just under 1" cubed. The full sized object is 50mm cubed (just under 2" cubed) and it is pretty sturdy.

Printing:
I suggest rafts and supports - especially since the inner spindle has only a small portion touching the bed on the first layer. Use the "Normal" or "supports everywhere" setting (as opposed to the "From build plate only setting").

Infill: 20% (or solid if you want more weight).
Layers: I suggest 0.1 or 0.2

Tesseract_Cube_02_1a.STL 1.0MB