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The World’s Fastest Puzzle Solver (It’s a Robot) - kottke. org When we first tried to assemble the puzzle, almost none of the pieces fit together perfectly This was before we had corrected the errors in the computer vision code as described earlier However even after we improved the computer vision code, some small errors remained
Fun Algorithmic, Puzzle, and Mathematical Typefaces For instance, here’s their Tetris font, where each letter is made up of the seven possible Tetris pieces: Or their newest one, Everything, where each letter can be folded into any other letter:
Solving the spaghetti problem - kottke. org Nobody else seemed to like it Anyway, if you get a spaghetti stick and you break it, it turns out that instead of breaking it in half, it will almost always break into three pieces Why is this true — why does it break into three pieces? We spent the next two hours coming up with crazy theories
Milky Way Embroidery - kottke. org I love Yuliya Krishchik’s space-themed embroidery pieces, especially the ones featuring Milky Way-like star fields — she calls them “surreal space landscapes”
Josh’s Albums of the Year My friend Josh LaFayette spends the very last part of the year making fan art for his favorite albums of the year and despite all the pieces being visually different there’s a through line which make all of them immediately recognizable to me as his art
The “Disturbing Beauty” of Shattering Porcelain Statues Temporary sculptures made visible to the human eye by high-speed photography The porcelain statuette bursting into pieces isn’t what really captures the attention; the fascination lies in the genesis of a dynamic figure that seems to stop pause the time and make time visible itself
The Evolution of Hokusai’s Great Wave - kottke. org The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai is one of the world’s most iconic pieces of art Hokusai created the woodblock print in 1831 at the age of 71 as part of his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Quilts Turned Into Clothes - kottke. org As she put it to me in an email (I reached out to make sure I had my facts right), “I like to repurpose cutter quilts, or ones who need a little love, into new, wearable pieces so that we can keep enjoying their beauty, just in a new way!”
Three Pieces That Prove Bach’s Genius - kottke. org In this video, pianist David Bennett explains three pieces composed by Johann Sebastian Bach that show how much of a musical genius he was Two of the compositions are puzzle canons, “a piece of music where the performer has to decode what the composer wants in order to perform the music”