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Huevos means "egg" in Spanish.  In a 3D design course in college, we did something called "egg crating".  In an industrial setting, it deals with packaging objects and can often use, interlocking cardboard to hold objects (think of a case of bottles that has dividers between them).  Well, that's what we did in the class. 

The piece that yours truly turned in was the most complex object the school had ever seen.  The shape was generated by a self-written program and visualized with graphing software.  Each of the interlocking planes was then drawn on a computer plotter and these formed a template which was used to allow the pieces to be cut out of a posterboard with an X-Acto knife by following the patterns from the plotter.

That's not to say that my work was inherrently better than the other students but it was so far beyond what they could do in terms of complexity and detail because the computer program was taking care of a lot of those details and doing the drawings automatically.  Remember, this was the in the 80's and relatively few people had computer access and skills, especially in an art department.

Fast forward a few decades and the idea of doing another egg crated object came up and I started to write a new Python program to do it but would still cut them by hand.  Shortly after this, I had access to a laser cutter and then it could do all the cutting work and the intricacy of the objects could now be even more detailed and complex as well as using new materials like acrylic and even wood.  It's worked out well over the last few years and there are many more objects to come out of this.