In the West, bricks are almost always used to create straight, uniform walls in rectilinear buildings. India, on the other hand, has a long history of sculptural brickwork, using these basic ...

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Lasercutters are amazingly versatile tools that can help you build all manner of complicated structures if you can break them down into a series of planar parts. [David] had spotted artworks at the ...

If you walk through Midtown in New York City and look up, you’ll see a string of nondescript buildings towering over the street. Taken in as a whole, the buildings are mostly underwhelming—just ...

The Custom Shape Tool in Photoshop has some shapes that can be used to create patterns. these patterns can be used to make decorations for artwork, decorations for mockups of packages and clothing, ...

The endless array of patterns and shapes in nature has long been a source of joy and wonder to laymen and scientists alike. Discovering how such patterns emerge spontaneously from an orderless and ...