Promotional video for a highly customizable 3D model of a stepwell: the Stepwell Project

Описание: We love stepwells! They provide equal access to the common good of water, offer shade, and serve as a social and spiritual meeting point. And besides that, they look damn good!

So we created a customizable Open-Source 3D model. This video visualizes some of its many features.

In this project, we tried to recreate the Chand Baori from India (without the inbuilt temple). This huge stepwell consists of about 500 stairs distributes across 13 levels. Our goal was to create a parametrized model, allowing to create custom stepwells which follow certain rules we extrapolated from the original. We started with obvious variables (width, height and depth of the steps as well as the number of steps per stair), but as we progressed we included many more parameters. At the moment there are about 25 variables one can modify. Although our basic template was the Chand Baori, we extended its functionality to rebuild other real world stepwells like the Panna Meena ka Kund (which we like a lot). We are still not done yet and have plenty ideas to make it even more awesome.

This model on thingiverse:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7082741
Customizer for experimenting with your own parameters and creating STL-files with your individual settings:
https://tinyurl.com/bdfvc6pf