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The Workshop

Case studies from the apps and from this site.

Each one is a problem and what was built for it.

The sky above you

A landing page that draws the sky as it stands over you right now.

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Unrolled from the circle

How a round logo becomes a screen-filling background without a single stroke being redrawn. Two approaches had to fail first.

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A meadow from one icon

Sky, clouds and ten hills — composed from 1,651 measured brushstrokes. A landscape made of nothing but its own logo.

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The solver came first

Eleven human techniques were built before a single puzzle was generated, so that no puzzle would ever need a guess.

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What hard is allowed to mean

Most sudoku apps make a grid harder by taking more numbers out. That is not what harder means.

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