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Engineer creates 3D-printed marble fountain using procedural generation

What the heck is that? Marble Fountain is a piece of "tech art" that looks like a huge tangled mess of string. However, flip a switch and ball bearings trickle forth, each riding one of eight complicated tracks to the bottom of the sculpture before being conveyed to the top again by a ball screw. It is mesmerizing to watch.

Full story By Cal Jeffrey, November 10, 2025, 5:07 PM 9 comments

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AMD demo shows procedural generation slashing VRAM use from 35 GB to just 51 KB

Like Nvidia, AMD is trying to offload tasks from memory to the GPU

By Daniel Sims, June 26, 2025, 7:51 AM 8 comments

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Warner Bros closes three development studios, locks Monolith's Nemesis system behind patent

An advanced AI gaming system going to waste

By Alfonso Maruccia, February 27, 2025, 4:16 PM 21 comments

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Caves of Qud, a roguelike game 17 years in the making, is now "complete"

You can do almost anything here, but mostly die

By Alfonso Maruccia, December 9, 2024, 6:56 PM 8 comments