Henry Burchard Fine and Henry Dallas Thompson, Coordinate Geometry, New York: Macmillan Company, 1931, p. 243-244. An example of a related Brill model, with more lines of intersection shown on it, is ...
If the tips of the triangles are raised, the threads form a surface called a hyperbolic paraboloid. The model came to the Smithsonian from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.