UNRSNONE TEAPOT · SEVEN HANDS · 1963 → NOW
01 CONSTRAINTPENLIGHT19635 lessons
02 PATCHATELIER19775 lessons
03 INFERENCECALQUE19887 lessons
04 COMMANDAXIAL19929 lessons
05 NURBSISOFORM~199511 lessons
06 HISTORYSOLIDA199814 lessons
07 LOCALUNRSNnow17 lessons
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THE HALFWAY THREAD · ONE CURVE, FOUR DECADES

UNRSN

CLASSICERY · genre: surfaces from curves · one teapot, seven hands

One teapot, seven hands. UNRSN tells one story seven ways — how a person shapes a surface from curves, from the light-pen constraint console of 1963 to the modern NURBS modeller, each room wearing the real software skin of its era. Pick an era on the rail above. The specimen is the field's oldest in-joke, the Utah teapot. The point is the hand.

01 CONSTRAINT · PENLIGHT · 1963 — the light-pen console; geometry holds its own promises. · 5 lessons
02 PATCH · ATELIER · 1977 — Bézier & Coons patches; the surface becomes a primitive. · 5 lessons
03 INFERENCE · CALQUE · 1988 — the Mac desk that proposes the point you meant. · 7 lessons
04 COMMAND · AXIAL · 1992 — name the verb, place it by coordinate. · 9 lessons
05 NURBS · ISOFORM · ~1995 — the SGI workstation; surfaces judged by zebra. · 11 lessons
06 HISTORY · SOLIDA · 1998 — the model becomes an editable feature tree. · 14 lessons
07 LOCAL · UNRSN · now — drag the control net the surface is attracted to. · 17 lessons

Each room is a small school, and the count is the argument — seventeen lessons in the modern room, five at the 1963 dawn. Capability grows as you walk forward in time. The earliest room can't even make a surface — it draws a wireframe and constrains it; the surface arrives in 1977. Every later room builds the teapot for real, the period way — body, lid and knob revolved, spout and handle swept — with a ghost hand that walks each lesson start to finish. Every room also carries at least one specimen that ISN'T the teapot: the era's own day job — a truss bay, a Falcon-50 fuselage, a chair elevation, a turned tool handle, a car fender, a sheet-metal bracket, a solitaire ring. Sixty-eight lessons across the seven hands.

Clean-room, period-honest: no real product's chrome, code, fonts or assets are reproduced; real names appear only as fair-use commentary inside each room. Runs offline. Research and provenance live in research/ — start at RESEARCH-MAP.md.