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Lunch Posts
A designer's project of drawing a new sticky-note illustration for his son's lunchbox every school day for years, with t…
M&Ms and Skittles Sorting Machine
A maker documents his elaborate machine that sorts M&Ms and Skittles by color, with a spinning feeder, color sensor and…
Mac Themes Garden
A showcase of more than 3,000 Kaleidoscope color schemes from the Classic Mac era, with the backstory of how the collect…
MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
A gallery-style appreciation of 1980s MacPaint artwork, showing how artists made striking pictures in black and white pi…
Making a Flexible Neon T-Shirt with LED Filaments
A hands-on maker write-up about sewing flexible LED filaments into a glowing neon-style t-shirt, with the experiments an…
Making a Font
An indie comic artist explains how and why they made a handwriting font for their webcomic, with sketches and step-by-st…
Making and Knowing: Training a Dog
A page from the digital edition of a sixteenth-century French artisan manuscript, with translation, notes and recipes on…
Making Eyesite
A development journal for Eyesite, an experimental website that combines computer vision with web design, explaining how…
Making My Own Wedding Rings
A hands-on write-up of casting wedding rings at home, from carving molds to melting and pouring purple gold, with photos…
Making Perlin Noise 30% Faster
A write-up on optimizing Perlin noise generation to run 30 percent faster, walking through the changes made to squeeze o…
Math Breakdown: Anime Homing Missiles
A visual tutorial on recreating anime-style swarming missile trails using cubic Bezier curves, Perlin noise and minimal…
Mathematics of Animation
A slide deck that explains the math behind animation, showing how equations drive the motion of elements on screen in de…
Mayerle's International Test Chart, 1907
The National Library of Medicine shows a lavish 1907 multilingual eye-test chart, with letters in several scripts and pi…
McLelun Anime Background Tutorial
A tutorial page showing an artist's workflow for painting anime-style backgrounds using Photoshop, Blender 3D and After…
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Literary humor site publishing satirical lists, columns, and short comedic pieces, alongside McSweeney's book publishing…
Me, Myself and I: Brunelle's Doppelganger Project
A look at Francois Brunelle's I'm Not a Look-Alike project, a 12-year photo series of portraits of unrelated people who…
Meaning on a Lamp Post
Journalist Paul Slade tracks down the stories behind odd little artworks and messages fixed to lamp posts around London,…
Megabite
A write-up of an algorithm that automatically turns photos of food into faces, with the image-processing approach and th…
Memories - SizeCoding
An illustrated breakdown of Memories, a 256-byte demo that won Revision 2020, walking through the history of tiny visual…
Metaballs
An illustrated explanation of metaballs, the gooey blobs that merge when they touch, with live interactive demos showing…
Metropolis
A design magazine covering architecture and interiors with a focus on sustainability, urban systems, and how buildings s…
Modelling by Numbers
A hands-on tutorial series on procedural 3D geometry, teaching how to build models from numbers and code instead of scul…
Modern Japanese Woodworking Techniques
An illustrated guide to traditional Japanese woodworking crafts such as sashimono joinery, carving, kurimono, hikimono t…
Modern Retro Computer Terminals
A designer documents building small 3D-printed computers styled after vintage terminals, with photos of the design, prin…
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