Scientists Make Material That Can Morph Into Anything With the Pull of a String

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...
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One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...
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Google explains the string conversion algorithm 'Burrows-Wheeler conversion' in a movie, and the creator himself appears and explains it.

The Burrows-Wheeler transform is a string transformation algorithm invented by British computer scientists Mike Burrows and David Wheeler, and is used in compression algorithms, etc. Google has ...
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Algorithms help an artist tease portraits out of thread

Our brains are great at forming images out of mishmashes and blotches of color, as a pointillist will tell you. Artist Ani Abakumova has taken that idea and applied it to simple colored threads to ...