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Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams
Materials from our SIGGRAPH '20 paper.
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Notches Gone Wild
This holiday season we have a special gift for Mac users everywhere, especially ones with a new MacBook Pro and notch. We’re proud to announce the immediate availability of Notchmeister. So what does Notchmeister do? Think of it as a fun way to spruce up your notch. Or as a screen saver for something you […]
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Using AI to Animate Children’s Drawings
We’ve built a first-of-its-kind method for using AI to automatically animate children’s drawings of people.
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Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era
A deep dive into Adaptive Projections, a novel way to make interactive maps more accurate without compromises to user experience or rendering quality.
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Tailwind CSS v3.0
Tailwind CSS v3.0 is here — bringing incredible performance gains, huge workflow improvements, and a seriously ridiculous number of new features.
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Blender 3.0
21 years after Blender 2.0, version 3.0 brings unprecedented performance on a robust yet light package.
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Nvidia releases Paint me Picture – A web app for GauGAN2
GauGAN2, the latest version of NVIDIA Research’s wildly popular AI painting demo, allows anyone to create photorealistic masterpieces.
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How Google designed its wildfire feature for Maps
Learn more about Google. Explore our innovative AI products and services, and how we're using technology to help improve lives around the world.
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Campbell's Law: The dark side of metric fixation
When organizations optimize metrics at the cost of all else, they expose themselves to metric corruption. Ultimately, as the Facebook scandal illustrates, they may fail their users and their business goals.
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Websites should not use dithered images
Despite claims that dithered images will reduce your image's file size, there are much better ways to compress your website's images.
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Gunship “Tech Noir” Breakdown
Gunship's
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Why Does the Sunlight Always Come from the North in Shaded Relief Maps?
If you've got a sharp eye and a knack for details, you might have noticed the sun coming from an unrealistic angle in most shaded relief maps: the north. In this article we explain why.
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Turning satellite imagery into wall art
See how we go from raw satellite imagery, clouds and all, to beautiful wall art.
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Why are hyperlinks blue?
The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ev
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Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding
Discover the user offboarding tactics used by Adobe and how to design a great subscription cancellation flows without relying on unethical dark patterns.
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Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names
by Eric Evans Perfectionism is a pitfall. For those who, like me, love elegant design and see its utility, there is a slippery slope waiting when a satisfying design does not emerge in a reasonable time. It takes constant self-discipline to recognize this and accept, let go, ship and move on – or return in...
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Making The World's Most Detailed Print Maps
To make the world's most detailed print maps, we only make maps when our data resolution exceeds that of our printed resolution and we print our maps using the highest resolution mediums available.
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Mixed Reality with Passthrough
Today we’re excited to introduce Passthrough API Experimental—a way to build and test apps that seamlessly blend the real and virtual worlds and open up new possibilities for mixed reality experiences.
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Artists, shrug off that imposter syndrome – the tech world needs you
Artists looking for a change already have one foot in another career.
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Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards
In March 2022, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will present Guarding the Art, an exhibition curated entirely by 17 members of the museum’s security team.
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Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
Chrome’s bookmark manager and Google docs have questionably bad UI and design. They both lack such basic organizational features, such as tags, one has to wonder if they are purposefully bad at helping you stay organized.
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We Built a C++ Rendering Engine for the Web
Here at Ceros, we're no good at goodbyes. But one thing we've always excelled at? Embracing new beginnings and creating awesome new solutions. That's why we're kicking off a new era of tools crafted just for you:
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Blender and the Rabbids
Julien Blervaque and Yannick Castaing, Ubisoft Film & Television, share the experience of using Blender for Rabbids Invasion: Mission to Mars.
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Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene
Machine Learning at Berkeley is a student organization at UC Berkeley. Click to read ML@B Blog, by Machine Learning at Berkeley, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Your product is a joke: lessons from improv to build better product
The rules that help make good improv comedy can surprisingly help make good product too. Let's run through interesting parallels between the two, and how you can apply some lessons from improv to build better product.
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Yamaha MOTOROiD
the Next Phase of Jin-Ki Kanno: Like a Living Creature
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The Expanse UI Design
Here’s a look at the various FUI designs from the sci-fi series The Expanse . Special thanks to Brian Benton who suggested this and provided some great links as well! A lot of the images have been collected from this massive image dump from drainsmith and further below we have some insights and
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Behind the design of the fresh new Firefox coming June 1
A new Firefox is coming your way on June 1 with a fresh look designed for today’s modern life online. We pored over the browser’s user interface pixel