Chris wrote
>......
>The coolest thing they had was the Telemanufacturing Facility
>(http://www.sdsc.edu/tmf), where a Laminated Object Manufacturing device
>builds protype solid 3-D models to represent digital data.  Built with
>layer upon layer of paper precisely cut with a laser, the finished
>product feels like wood......
>
>Chris Wyatt
>'87 Syncro GL
>Fairbanks, Alaska
>
>
I just went to a machine tool show where the above machine ('instant
prototyping") was being demonstrated - also one that works directly off a
pc's printer port, and builds models using ink jet technology squirting
melted plastic or wax instead of ink (done in layers ~.005" thick).  Way
kewell.

Austin