Long time readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with circles and related things, like donuts, and cups of coffee. As a result, I have amassed a small arsenal of techniques for producing them. If you know Javascript, and would like to develop your graphics chops, you may enjoy my new tutorial, which […]

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via Laughing Squid.

I’ll be teaching two Processing seminars at Crash Space, the hacker space in Culver City that I belong to. You can sign up for these classes in the Crash Space store. All proceeds from these classes will go towards Crash Space’s legal fund (they are seeking 501(c)3 status). Each class is 3 hours long, and […]

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I have a major obsession with circles, wheels and other round objects. Much of my experimental music and art is circular or spiral in form. I collect kaleidoscopes, pictures of crop circles. The list goes on. If I had to spend the rest of my life […]

This is undoubtedly the coolest wood working project I have ever seen. A wooden desk whose drawers emit pipe organ sounds ranging over an octave. Open the doors to play a particular melody, and a secret compartment opens. The password can be changed by turning wood screws on the wooden pneumatic logic board, shown below. […]

I needed some animations yesterday, so I downloaded a bunch of images of Zoopraxiscope discs by Eadweard Muybridge, and wrote a little Perl script that extracted out the images into separate PNG cels. After a little photoshop massaging to remove the backgrounds, and a little more ImageMagick, I now have 15 animated GIFs to play […]

I know from your correspondence that many of you download my puzzles to keep your brains active and sharp. If this describes you, I think you’ll like the new book by Joshua Foer called Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything [ Self disclosure: I should mention that I once lunched with […]

Fans of my variety slitherlinks will enjoy these two new sets of puzzles, based on two different Rhombille tilings supplied by reader Lars Huttar. The first set (shown here) is a basic rhombille tiling with intersections containing 3 and 6 vertices. The second set contains intersections of 3, 4 and 5 vertices. Rhombille Set #1 […]

Here’s another crossfigure puzzle from one of our readers. This puzzle is by Paul-Olivier Dehaye, of the mathematics department at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Thanks Paul! Download the PDF Do you have another good original puzzle to share? Let’s see it!