Thought I'd try my hand at some vase modeling & printing. I was looking through an issue of Dwell magazine, and saw this 'geometric' looking lamp-shade, that was orange. I'd just happened to have picked up a spool of orange PLA at the Maker Faire. Inspiration.
And you should pronounce them "vaaaaas', not "vAse" :P

Each of the three vases was modeled in Maya out of simple low-poly cylinders, and various "poke" operations applied (among others). About 15 minutes to model each.

I printed each of the three vases slightly differently, to experiment with different custom Makerware profiles.

Shared settings:

• Material: PLA
• Slicer: MakerBot Slicer
• Extrusion temp: 230
• HBP : Off
• Print speed: 80\100
• Shells: 4
• Infill: 0
• roofThickness: 0
  We're only printing the outer-thickness of the polygonal cylinder, with no top.

Here's the info for each:

pokeVaseA01 (the big one):

• Print Time: 2:16
• Weight : 1.6g
• Layer thickness : .27
• Raft: no

pokeVaseA02 (the medium one):

• Print Time: I'm guessing around 5 hours (did it over-night)
• Weight: 1.4g
• Layer thickness : .1
• Raft : yes : couldn't get the .1 slices to stick to the platform without the raft.

pokeVaseA03 (the small one):

• Print Time: :58
• Weight .6g
• Layer thickness : .2
• Raft : no
  I tried printing this one at .1 layer thickness, but it failed multiple times, having weird behavior during the printing. I think it has to do with overhang issues on some of the spiky bits. Setting the slicer to .2 printed just fine.