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IRZ Creative archive, page 9.

Comparison of 3D surface reconstructions showing artifacts addressed by Gaussian Sculpting

A 3D scan can look right and still have the wrong geometry

A Gaussian Splat can produce convincing views while hiding a bad surface. Gaussian Sculpting binds rendering back to optimized geometry, at a reported cost of 6 to 18 hours per object in the paper's experiments.

The tutorial disappears into the first wave

Matt Sephton starts with a failed prototype, borrows from old arcade games and lets each design mistake teach his Jinks engine what it actually needs.

A generated 3D world whose objects remain movable

WorldClaw turns a prompt into regions, builds global terrain, then generates local objects as separate meshes. The important difference is structural: the result remains an explicit 3D scene instead of a fixed view.

Plugging in headphones no longer stops a Sonic Pi jam

Sonic Pi v5 drops the SuperCollider engine for SuperSonic, an in-house port. The most telling gain: switching audio devices on the fly, without stopping the music. An ergonomics lesson for creative tools.

A hand-painted tattoo sign became a web font in ten minutes

A developer started from a hand-painted sign made by a tattoo artist. Codex reconstructed the character set, wrote the vectorization script, and produced usable TTF and WOFF2 font files in roughly ten minutes.

What 1,929 fonts look like when sorted by job

Type Barn takes the Google Fonts catalog and reorganizes it around the designer's actual question: what kind of typeface do I need for this particular job?