The recent Instructables post on building a paper clone (also BoingBoinged) using Pepakura reminded me that I’ve been meaning to revisit these prints, which were outtakes from a larger sculptural project using Pepakura. It was started in the kitchen/studio of the Australia Council Studio in Tokyo during my three-month residency, and the prints are just photographs of the layers as I cut and pieced them together. As with much of my work they were made from data captured in multiple sweeps using a Polhemus 3d laser scanner, and I chopped them up further until only fragments remained.

If anyone wanted to make their own paper clone without modeling and texturing, they could do worse than to use the free DAVID Laser Scanner system we used for our video Body/Traces. DAVID will capture textures using the same webcam you use to scan, and then map them to your model automatically.