Roller for cutting tortilla chips (via a now long lost string of “How It’s Made” videos on YouTube).
Diagrams from “Specification And Prelimary Design Of An Array Processor”
Fantastic diagrams from “Specification And Prelimary Design Of An Array Processor” by D.L. Slotnick and Marvin Graham, a 1975 paper describing what would have been a $10 million computer (in today’s dollars). Below is a selection of my favorites, mostly the most abstract and wonderfully geometric ones (diagrams whose function, I admit, I mostly have no clue about). Lots more after the break (and in the full PDF).
Via: Hackaday, download the 250+ page PDF here
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Magnesium Crystal
Nuclear Explosion
Strange, super-minimalistic raw film of a test nuclear explosion from 1953. After several minutes of flickering gray and quiet ambient sound, the blast fills the screen all-white, then receeds to a silent, washed-out mushroom cloud. This is followed nearly a minute later by a sharp, dull blast sound (since the speed of sound is much slower than light). The video concludes with several minutes of gray clouds.
Via: Nuclear Secrecy blog
Rhino Freakout
Beautiful glitch when switching Rhino CAD to a new monitor.
Homestake Mine Pit
Homestake Mine Pit in Lead, South Dakota; photograph by Wikipedia user Rachel Harris
Crossed Writing
“Crossed” writing, or two pages written on the same side at 90º angles to each other. The above letter is from 1837
Via: Wikipedia
QR Encoding Masks
QR encoding masks, via the fantastic tutorial on swtch.com
Law & Order Geometry
Still from Law & Order (season 6, episode 18, 11:14). As an aside, doesn’t the intro to Beck’s “Where It’s At” sound a lot like the Law & Order theme?
Handsome Patch Cords
Some intense patch cords from a project by a current student (Jon Love). Click the image for high-res.