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  Kevin Behling

  

  Enter the mesmerising, AI-driven world of artist Refik Anadol

  Wallpaper* - TF Chan

  Surveying and synthesising more than 200 years of art from MoMA’s collection would be a daunting, and likely insurmountable task for most artists and researchers. Not so much for Refik Anadol, who recently unveiled a major installation in the museum’s ground-floor Gund Lobby, using AI art to …

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  Kevin Behling

  

  Fun Video Shows What Would Happen If You Dropped a Ball On Different Planets

  ScienceAlert - Nancy Atkinson

  Summertime means it's time to play ball! But what would it be like to play ball on various locations across our Solar System? Planetary scientist Dr. …

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  Kevin Behling

  

  These abandoned Soviet buildings got a hauntingly gorgeous makeover

  Fast Company - By Lilly Smith

  But there’s a catch: It’s not real. It can be hard to imagine a bygone era, especially when the buildings of that era are abandoned shells of their former selves. Ryan Koopmans, a Canadian-Dutch digital artist and photographer, and Alice Wexell, a Swedish digital artist and photographer, have given …

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  Kevin Behling

  

  Watch as this large crystal-like installation turns Tokyo’s landscape into kaleidoscopic art

  yankodesign.com - Sarang Sheth

  Looking almost like a ripple in time and space, Vincent Leroy’s Illusion Lens bends light in a way that makes you double-take. The illusory …

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  Kevin Behling

  

  What makes a city great? A new way to look at urban data will give us clues.

  MIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv

  According to the statistician Edward Tufte, one of the goals of data visualization is to allow viewers to think about data on a different level. Good …

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  Kevin Behling

  

  This ancient baby bottle is a 3,000-year-old lesson for today’s designers

  Fast Company - By Elizabeth Segran

  Our ancestors designed beautiful, useful products out of natural materials. We should look to them for guidance. In the Bronze and Iron Age, the world was a different place. Humans had only just invented flint tools, which allowed them to build homes, weave cloth, and plant crops. And yet, some …