Faceted Geometric Flower Pot

This is my first printable 3D model. 

I was really inspired by the many cool designs of the community and decided to try my hand at designing a flower pot of my liking. In the beginning I only knew I wanted a pot with thicker walls, which ended up being about 3mm with a 4mm bottom.

I wanted the pattern to be subtle, modern and minimalistic and was happy with a faceted polygonal swirl which gave a subtle optical illusion effect. Depending on the angle the diamonds break down into polygons.

I printed this on a Prusa MINI+ using cheapo PLA filament. The original model had a mistake in it which cut the top a few milimeters, meaning the pattern was not entierly perfect near the top, which I fixed in the models I uploaded.

Print settings for my MINI:

Print 1
0.20mm, 0.4, Input Shaper, Infill 100%, no supports
4 Perimeters, 4 bottom solid layers, Aligned Seam
It took about 280 grams of filament and 12h to print, resulting in a nice hefty pot that is sturdy and has some weight to it, just like I wanted it.
I post-processed it by sanding its surface, sanding down the seam and painting it with ultra matte spray paint.

Print 2

Printed with no infills, and modifiers for bottom and top parts to add infills. Checked “avoid crossing perimeters” and printed with matte white PLA (on picture) Reduced the print time, made a nasty inner seam.
 

Inner pot was printed with 0.4, 0.4 structural using some high speed PLA I had (print speed 130% and adjusted the temp downwards on my mini). Turned out surprisingly good.

This is my very first contribution and there is probably room for improvement, please do share tips and tricks! 💪