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Apple have an experimental animated table lamp robot thing which strongly resembles the Luxo Jr that features in Pixar’s logo.
(Via Apple’s friendly table lamp robot prototype)
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In this video from the V&A, artist Colin Reid shows us how he makes dramatic kiln-cast glass sculptures, starting with an impression made from the rocky shores of west Scotland.
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Here’s a YouTube video about making a pinhole camera in Blender and then going increasingly demented making better and better Blender models of the optics of camera lenses. A tour de force that will delight or appall camera or graphics nerds.
(Via The Shape of Everything)
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The 3D-Printed fashion of Sophy Wong on Adam Savage's Tested YouTube channel.
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PUPARIA, a ahort animated film by Shingo Tamagawa
(Via @ethanmaldridge on Twitter)
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Kanawa tsugi, or Japanese scarf joint: a way of joining two timbers without metal or nails but instead using intricate carving and a wooden peg
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A 15-minute explanation of one of the signature masterpieces of the Renaissance, Michelangelo’s David, part of a series on YouTube.
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Not to my taste but I know Thinkpad users who might be excited by this: a mechanical keyboard that carefully reproduces the Thinkpad layout, complete with red trackpoint in the middle and mouse keys under the spacebar. Available ready-made with Cherry keyswitches, or as a kit for people who want to specify fancier switches and don’t mind a bit of soldering.
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The PACK.PNG project was an attempt to discover the world seed and location of a landscape fragment used as an icon in Minecraft from the cropped, downscaled screen grab from an obsolete version of the game. This video describes the collaboration of 3,500 people to define and search what was in effect the cryptographic keyspace whose plaintext was that particular hill.
(Via @benjeffery on Twitter)
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