impressive. Could be useful in topographical situations. it would be really interesting to see the effects achieved by having another one cross through the first on a z axis.

I could see this being used in topographic work as well as in modeling waves without all the messy water business. I am sure there is a math major somewhere drooling over this.

Would make a really nice way to display FFTs over a period of time. Upping the horizontal resolution (1920×1200 sounds wonderful, though expensive), moving the projector closer (and/or adding an extra lens/triplet to change the focal length, and maybe even adding a fresnel to get closer to parallel projection), and using more and thinner wires in a smaller volume would give you a very convincing ‘solid’ image.

Hey there Hackaday – thanks for the post, and thanks all for the comments.

I tend to agree with all of your comments – the current implementation lacks some very basic features. I love the idea of topographical rendering – cept I’m not that great a coder by myself (I’m a theater grad, not a comp sci grad).

This is why I’m opening up the code and creating an instruction guide so that I can get other people inspired to build their own and to contribute.

Could have been a good occasion to present the software tools used for this: he seems to be using Processing – http://www.processing.org/ which is an open-source gfx creation system built atop of Java.