The Nazca Lines [wiki] are massive, mysterious geoglyphs etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting animals, shapes, and lines so vast they can only be fully seen from the sky—sparking wonder and speculation for centuries. In addition to the Nazca Lines, the nearby Palpa Lines—created by the Paracas culture—feature hundreds of smaller, often more intricate geoglyphs carved into the hillsides, including human-like figures and complex patterns that predate the Nazca designs.

I've long been fascinated by these curious ancient doodles and more are still being discovered and documented to this day, so I've decided to model a few as faithfully as possible using recent documentation.

This Palpa Hummingbird geoglyph is lesser known than the Nazca Hummingbird, but I think they complement each other equally.

Printing Guidelines

Split the model or swap filament at 1.61mm to separate the fill from the outline.

The model is scaled for it's smallest print size, based on a 0.4mm nozzle. Use 'Arachne' perimeter generation for a clean, single extrusion outline.

If scaling the model up, you can use non-uniform scaling to maintain the Z height, and only adjust X and Y together, to save filament.

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Photographed model was printed on the Bambu Lab X1-Carbon 3D Printer using eSUN PLA+ Purple (Also on Amazon) for the fill and Bambu PLA Glow Blue for the outline.*

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