For all those who could never quite manage a straight line in Drawing 101, Saurabh Datta may have an answer. For his thesis at Copenhagen’s Institute of Interaction Design, Datta developed an odd ...

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Lately, quirky tinkerer Neil Mendoza’s curious contraptions have had both biological and technological features. In Eggsistential Angst, for instance, Mendoza combined a pendulum with an egg. In his ...

Originally, the geometric chuck was a device to make ornate patterns on a lathe. Invented in the 1860s, the device could have up to 8 layers—each driven by a central shaft. There are several of these ...

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The Japanese practice of drawing patterns in sand, known as “karesansui” or “dry landscape” gardening, is often associated with Zen Buddhism. These gardens are designed to embody a sense of ...

Researchers have developed an automatic drawing machine that uses pens and pencils to draw metamaterials -- artificially engineered composite materials that derive their properties from patterned ...