This is a fun slideshow of images from architect George Legendre’s book “Pasta by Design”
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/using-his-noodle/
The slideshow, from the on-line New York Times Style magazine, shows a few different renderings of pasta shapes. The book, apparently, contains actual cooking directions as well as these technical schematics.
It appears as though Legendre used a graphing utility like Mathematica or Maple to sketch out his pastas. A creative, and fun, application of this technology!
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