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(I can't believe someone had to say "stop spending all your time building sheep and get back to making a 3d printer" to them)

Here's a couple of more recent pictures that I found on my digital camera. You can see the whole printer (with chocolate) printing in these shots.

If I assume that your exhibit will be on a web site, I'd suggest a few things...

First, text rendering in html tends to be iffy. PDF tends to work a bit better.
I'd try telnet. It's possible to embed a java telnet client to allow your web-based users a quick connection to ASCII/ANSI content.

As for the RIP, you'll probably be best off with screen captures. If you're willing to go into a great deal more effort, you could try to convert them into Flash animations. It would suck to do, but I would think it would be possible. RIP is just relativly easy to interpret commands in plain old ascii. The geekish could even create it in vi. I've seen perl create flash animations in real time. I suppose it would be within the realm of someone versed in Perl to create something that would do the translation. No idea about NAPLPS.

The Amiga thing could be done a few ways. My favorite is to get a Amiga and do screen caps. Could even automate the process with AREXX. IIRC JRCOMM supported event handling.

For the web try Perl:: Flash PerlMagik and Perl's GIMP bindings.
On other fronts Perl-Tk Gtk-Perl and Perl Qt bindings.