Thomas Wanner
Department of Mathematical Sciences
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 3F2
Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA

 

The Origin of almost6heads

Why almost6heads?

A number of years ago, my wife bought a 3d printer and scanner and asked me whether I had something interesting to scan and then print. On the shelf, a clay head that I made in high school had been collecting dust for many years, and its rough surface made it easy to scan. So we scanned the head shown on the left, and my wife was getting ready to print a smaller version of it. When she asked: In which color?, I answered with: In every color you have..!! She had five, but the first print stopped halfway through. Once everything was done, I had almost six heads.. If you visit me in my office, you can see the heads on the right. In fact, I have them in even more colors now!