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Paper and Plotter: A 3D Surface
Paul Haeberli - 1977
This page graciously donated by Paul Heaberli. - Visit: http://www.sgi.com/grafica/
This was one of my first projects in computer graphics. While an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, I found a Hewlett-Packard desktop calculator with a small pen plotter in the math library. I spent many hours programming it to draw slices of a function f(x,y) on 3"x5" cards. Then I carefully cut out the shape of each slice with scissors to form this 3D sculpture.
One nice thing about this is it can be folded flat (to be mailed to a friend, etc.).
More recently, I've developed software to drive a laser cutter to make
a similar model.
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