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IRZ Creative archive, page 9.

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?

Historical map gores designed to be assembled into a globe

Ten ways to fold a round world from open data

Daniel O’Donohue turns NASA, USGS and Natural Earth data into printable globes. Splitting a map into faces is not just decorative: it changes the projection problem.