Chrome draws it solid.This one is only the edge.

The browser’s offline dinosaur, printed 9.8 in tall with the fill taken out. What is left is a 2.8 mm ribbon of PETG tracing the sprite’s staircase the whole way round — and a lamp in the plinth, firing up through the gap where the fill used to be.

  • 9.8 intall, desk to head
  • 2.8 mmribbon, all the way round
The printed night light: a purple PETG outline of the Chrome offline dinosaur standing on a tan plinth against a dark ground.
Purple figure, tan plinth. Nothing on the figure curves at all, and nothing on the base except its corners and the bores through it, so almost every face is flat.

Scroll to run it

Straight on, it is the sprite: 20 × 22 pixels, 10 mm to a pixel, nothing rounded off.

Turn it and the sprite has a back — 2.0 in of it, the same section the whole way through.

The head is the only solid block in the object. The eye is one pixel, taken straight out.

Apart on its one axis: the figure, the plinth, and the cap that closes the battery well.

The assembly is 2 pegs, 6 mm across, 8 mm down into the plinth, with 0.1 mm to spare.

The puck sits under the plinth. A 14 mm shaft carries its light up between the figure’s legs, into the part of the drawing that is not there.

Everything lands on a 10 mm grid

A sprite is a grid of squares on a screen. Printed, it is the same grid at 10 mm a square, so every step in the outline is a step you can put a fingernail in — and nothing anywhere on the figure sits off it.

Figure, front elevation. 20 × 22 pixels. The body is drawn rather than filled: a 2.8 mm ribbon follows the sprite’s edge the whole way round and stops there, leaving the belly open. The head is the exception — solid from face to face — and the eye is one pixel cut clean through it.
Plinth, plan. Two sockets take the figure’s pegs. Between them the light shaft opens under the belly, so the lamp fires up through the gap rather than into the plastic. The four pads and the battery well are dashed: they are on the underside.
  • 10 mmone pixel, and the grid everything lands on
  • 2.8 mmthe ribbon the body is drawn with
  • 6.2 mmsockets, 8 mm deep, for 6 mm pegs
  • 14 mmlight shaft, 12 mm up to the top face
  • 45 mmbattery well, 12 mm into the underside
  • 51 mmcap, flush with the underside when it is shut

Close up, every step is there

Up close the steps stop being pixels and start being plastic — the same staircase, in PETG.

Macro photograph of the purple printed tail, its stepped profile up close, with the head out of focus behind.
The tail at close range. Each step is one pixel of the sprite.
The night light seen from above at an angle, with a disposable lighter lying on the table beside it for scale.
A lighter on the table beside it, for size. The plinth is a plain slab; the figure’s two feet are the only thing standing on it.

Weighed and measured

PETG, no screws and no glue. In daylight it reads as the sprite; after dark it reads as the light coming through it.

Overall
8.7 × 4.8 × 9.8 in
Weight
6.7 oz
Material
PETG
Grid
10 mm a pixel