Nine resonators let recycled PLA colour the sound
Ninefold shreds discarded PLA, reprints it as large tuned forms and leaves its color and transparency variations visible. Recycled material becomes part of the acoustic behavior.
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This robot finger sees pressure in color instead of reconstructing touch
A mechanochromic skin turns deformation directly into colors a camera can read. The prototype reaches 100-micrometer resolution without a heavy reconstruction pipeline.
How Midjourney was built: open diffusion, 10,000 GPUs and zero VC
Midjourney began as a small self-funded lab building on open breakthroughs in CLIP and diffusion. What we know about its first models, training costs and shift toward proprietary technology.
A 3 kB Windows game saved space by embedding its own virtual machine
For Langjam, Laurent Le Brun built a language, a VM and a shoot ’em up in an executable of roughly 3 kB. The constraint ends up shaping the game design too.
To make a dressmaking game, Dressmaker had to choose what not to simulate
Dressmaker keeps fabric choice, patterns, cutting and assembly, then compresses the repetitive hours. It shows how to translate a craft without reproducing everything.
Search five million artworks by idea, not by name
The Last Museum adds semantic search across collections from thousands of museums. Start with a mood or subject, then return to the institutional source.
The brand tool can come before the brand images
Studio Dial often builds the tool before the outputs. Afghan textiles, cocktail motion and urban growth become rules that can produce an identity.
What happens when an animation frame has thickness?
Wet paper, puzzles and sun printing: in Alèxia Ponce’s work, the physical surface does more than add texture. It becomes a rule for motion.
The font on Apollo panels was designed for routers
Gorton was designed in 1894 for mechanical routers, not screens. More than a century later, open-source revivals are bringing it back to the machines that inspired it.
Why the same Chromium can use 900 MB or 278 MB of RAM depending on the counter
In our test, the same Chromium process tree showed about 899 MiB as summed RSS and 278 MiB as median PSS. memftprt is most useful for explaining why both figures can be true at once.