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terraforming user interface

#Terraforming #Mechanism #Landscape #SciFi #Futuristic #Decorative #Fantasy
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

on things you don't have to modify: https://aieris.art/featured/terraforming-user-interface-eris-and-ai.html

#PrintingPress #Press #Machine #Ink #Mechanism #YouTube #Video #Historical #History #Printer #PrintingMachine #Machine #Machines #Technology What a fantastic machine, and in many respects it’s one of the most important ever created…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tf0frWnRvT8

The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.

One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).

The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.

J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.

When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.

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#linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty

Progress on the laptop stand, too. Got the folding mechanism sorted out. Gave up on not using metal, because I'm running out of patience on this project and we've got some other stuff going on.

Grabbed some threaded rod and done. Then marked where the slots need to go and carved them out.

Just some glueing and coating left to do. The side table is already in the garage with two coats of woodstain on.

Oh, and plug some wrong holes 😳

#DIY #Woodworking #LaptopStand #Mechanism

For those interested in the compatibility of enactivism and mechanism, Jonny Lee has a nice new paper out on this topic.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-022-09618-6

#enactivism #mechanism