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Artist Arthur Ganson has spent nearly 50 years building kinetic sculptures that walk, wobble and even take themselves apart, without serving any practical function. His work is presented as an exploration of mechanical motion and form for its own sake rather than utility.
The Public Domain Review, a nonprofit publication, has shared a collection of historical photographs depicting elaborate sand sculptures created on the beaches of Atlantic City between roughly 1880 and 1920. The images document a once-popular seaside art form that flourished during that era. Alongside the feature, the outlet appealed to readers for donations, noting it operates without ads or paywalls.
A developer inspired by Jonty Hurwitz's anamorphic sculptures built a custom application that arranges arbitrary 3D meshes—like cars, pigs, and pigeons—so their combined silhouette forms a target image when viewed from one specific camera angle. The system starts with randomly placed objects and uses gradient descent with a differentiable renderer to iteratively adjust each mesh's position, size, and rotation until the projected outline matches the target picture.
A mathematically crafted sculpture highlights a special set of dice built so that rolling them against each other never results in a tie. Unlike standard six-sided dice, which carry a 1-in-6 chance of matching results, these 60-sided dice are engineered around number theory principles to guarantee a distinct winner every time.