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Subject: Re: Giant plotter at MIT
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Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 08:49:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 15 08:49:00 1987
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Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!berger    Sep 15 08:49:00 1987


There is a GIANT plotter at MIT. It was built by people at the
Visual Language Workshop several years ago. The name of the professor
has suddenly escaped me.

It is GIGANTIC. I forget the specs but it was made for doing LARGE billboards.

It had something like a 5 nozzle airbrush head so it could do color.
Its input was driven by a Grinell Frame Buffer so you could "display"
almost any image onto the plotter. Much of the research was in inks/paints
that could be easily controlled and mixed by the nozzles.

Last I saw it (a few years ago) it was in a large MIT warehouse in Cambridge...