Based on the Möbius Strip and the Klein bottle, it’s a never ending and re-orientable puzzle!
A Mirrored Mexican Home Hides Among a Lush Forest
March 9, 2018 – 2:55 pm
Covered in mirrored glass that’s transparent when viewed from within, the façade of this Mexican forest retreat reflects the color, light, and movements of its natural surroundings.
Source: A Mirrored Mexican Home Hides Among a Lush Forest – Dwell
An intro to Pen Plotters
March 2, 2018 – 12:00 am
I’ve been fascinated with pen plotters for a long time now and I’ve owned several of them – but for some reason never posted any of my explorations or findings online. Until now, at least. You might wonder what’s so special about pen plotters? Well, let me tell you. Pen plotters are friendly robots
Source: An intro to Pen Plotters — Hej.
THE ZERO TERMINAL
June 21, 2017 – 9:25 am
Where have all the insects gone?
May 16, 2017 – 11:28 am
Entomologists call it the windshield phenomenon. “If you talk to people, they have a gut feeling. They remember how insects used to smash on your windscreen,” says Wolfgang Wägele, director of the Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity in Bonn, Germany. Today, drivers spend less time scraping and scrubbing. “I’m a very data-driven person,” says Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in Portland, Oregon. “But it is a visceral reaction when you realize you don’t see that mess anymore.
Quality of Government, Not Size, Is the Key to Freedom and Prosperity
May 6, 2017 – 3:34 pm
As far as human freedom goes, the quality of government dominates the statistical relationship.
Source: Quality of Government, Not Size, Is the Key to Freedom and Prosperity – Evonomics
Night Timelapse of the Milky Way from an Airplane Cockpit
April 28, 2017 – 2:47 pm
Just as the bright city lights are vanishing behind us, the Milky Way starts to become clearly visible up ahead. Its now us, pacing at almost the speed of sound along the invisible highway and the pitch-black night sky above this surreal landscape. Ahead of us are another eight hours flight time, but we already stopped counting the shooting stars. And we got already to a few hundred.
Read the full article on Beyond Clouds.
A Mind is Born
April 23, 2017 – 10:22 am
In 256 bytes, Linus Åkesson has produced not only an incredible set of visuals, modulating and morphing sierpinsky gaskets, but a beautiful, driving, piece of music.
He goes into depth about how it was made. The code can be seen below, in all its inscrutable wonder: