graphing connections

It isn't rendering a face. It's adding up a few dozen real ones, live, and dressing the result up like a haunted television.

Drop two images or two clips, drag the seam, see what's actually different.

A field study of northern Italy, kept three ways — an essay pairing each form my tools generate (fused-blob metaballs, tumbling-block and fan stone tilings) with the real Italian object that embodies it, beside a live in-browser generator; the Dérive globe-to-street trip map; and 25 turnable 3-D field scans.

Italian marble, re-run from the rock up — the stone, the floor pattern, and nine centuries of wear. Seamless PBR and CAD exports for Rhino, KeyShot, and Blender.

An Italian marble generator — twenty parametric stones, eight pavement grammars, a patina engine for nine centuries of wear.

Metaball-first sketch modeling in one browser tab. Drop soft primitives and move them together — they fuse like clay, raymarched from signed-distance fields, no topology. One persistent gumball, a searchable shader library, per-form color, save/load, OBJ export. For early, unstructured form exploration.

A recovered, brought-current directory of US jewelry, metals, and CAD-CAM teaching programs and the people who taught them — the dead Tyler School of Art “Academic Metals Directory,” pulled back from the Wayback Machine, fact-checked with sources, cross-linked, and mapped.

Renderer for design students. Drag a model, drop a material, pick a light, render. The expensive two cost what they cost.

Interactive pieces built from records, into something you can rotate, hear, decode, or export. Most take a famous post-punk sleeve at its word and lift what it concealed — a chart of pulsar pulses, a color cipher, a stone in deep space, a substitution puzzle, a Bronze Age clay warrior; one invents the cover a record never had. Six playable pieces: Ridgeline Pleasures (FACT 10, 1979), Monday Decoder (FAC 73, 1983), Lost Word (Songs of a Lost World, 2024), Three Imaginary Toys (Fiction FIX 1, 1979), Moss Mirror (Vermiform, 1993/94), and Eloquent Mirror (a synthesized record, 2026).

a curve-first 3D surface modeler for beginning design students. Three complexity levels (beginner default → advanced), live curve→surface ops (revolve/extrude/sweep/loft/network), Snapz precision snapping, Hammr curve-rebuild, the PipedCage lattice modifier, cardinal sculpt, zebra + wind-drag analysis, the NDZ parametric node graph, a local-LLM assist (make/tutor/critique), and a Concordance that bridges to Rhino/Blender. The next-gen line of ALYUS — modern math under period chrome.

Cartridge rooms, a theory wing read aloud, and an interactive playground — clean-room recreations of foundational design software, 1963 to now. Constraint sketcher, CSG ray-caster, B-rep solid modeler, vector and raster paint, layout, 3D surfacing, multimedia timeline, type editor, card stacks, the NeXTSTEP interface builder, structured documents, the first web browser-editor, WYSIWYG HTML, non-linear video, word processors — plus the literature read aloud and a hands-on playground.

Architectural inquiry tool. Small ensembles, precise voicing, every part audible.

Materials and processes for people who design and make things. Sphere palettes, PBR starter values, voices marked and cited, local-first.

Decode factory numbers and documents on muscle and pony cars. With uncertainties and citations marked.

Just another scanner app for the iPhone.

Two LLMs draw one continuous line, blind to each other. The handoff is the whole thing. Research notes from a workbench, not a product.

You describe what you want something to do. ingenue tells you what to build it from, and five fabrication voices argue about whether you should.

A focused CNC carving front-end. Mesh in, gcode out, everything else hidden.

A software Chladni plate. Sing at your laptop and wave at it; a four-layer physics surface tells you what your sound actually is.