BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scissors. Purple glue sticks. Paper designs to cut out and fold. Chris Lowry teaches advanced geology college courses at the University at Buffalo. But some of the tools he brings to ...

Now, thanks to Paper-kit.com, if you've got a big head – or simply want one – you can use the same technique to build an over-sized three-dimensional paper model of yourself using 2D photos.

The process is fairly simple. Using a piece of software called SliceIt, a 3D model is cut into paper-thin layers exactly the thickness of an 80 GSM sheet.

A paper model depicting the Queen and Prince Phillip sitting at a piano has won the praise of Her Majesty. The artwork was made using a technique known as quilling by rolling up strips of paper by ...

Photo: Douglas Levere “Geology is a 3D science, but everything we give to students is on a 2D piece of paper,” says Lowry, associate professor in the departments of Geology and Environment and ...