Recently I went to the Science Museum to have a close look at the Difference Engine, and while I was there I saw these lovely paper shapes.
My first thought was that it would be amazing to have a machine that makes things like these as physical representations of data – but because I’m not a programmer I filed it under “things to talk about when I next see someone that knows about this kind of thing”.
Well, reading Codelog it seems that someone has just gone half way to doing it in Processing. They’re using an image to generate the height map but if that image was generated by data then we’d have something really interesting.
