Tag: Objects

Time Travel Through Everyday Objects And Artefacts: Unveiling 200 Years Of Evolution, From 1924 To 2124

In this article, you will leap into a time machine on everyday objects and artefacts. I will be using AI to witness 200 years of mind-blowing building trends or innovations spanning the fields of everyday objects, daily items we use, cultural artefacts, house items, tools, inventions, gadgets, de...

Aligning rounded objects: a practical guide

and 12.84% of R in all directions. This is the math behind it. The square power affects the exponential decrease of the negative margin as the rounding radius decreases. As a result, the shape appears more rectangular and requires less negative expansion on the sides. Read More

Why can circular objects roll with ease?

When looking around ourselves, we notice numerous circular objects. The same thing about them is that they can roll without any significant restraint. The fact that those objects are round is applied in the manufacture of wheels for cars. Wheels were invented as early as the 4th millennium BC by the...

What if Earth Turned into a Black Hole?

Firstly, let’s understand what a black hole is. Black holes are fascinating and terrifying objects in space that have been the subject of many scientific studies and science fiction movies. They are regions of space where the gravitational pull is so strong that not even light can escape. Blac...

The Meaning of Found Objects

When I was in my twenties, I collected objects I found on the sidewalks of Los Angeles. An early find was a hand-written letter from a mother to her incarcerated son explaining why she wouldn’t bail him out of jail. “I have the money,” she wrote. “But you need to learn a less...

Objects in Focus : Ugolino and his Sons

This week’s featured model is the famous sculpture group ‘Ugolino and his Sons’ by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. The sculpture, standing at just under two metres, epitomises the Romantic preoccupation with extreme physical and emotional states. The subject is taken fr...

SwiftUI Observable Objects

SwiftUI, Apple’s innovative and user-friendly UI framework, provides a way to build user interfaces across all Apple platforms with the power of Swift. One of its core components is Observable Objects, which play a critical role in managing the state of an app and updating the UI. “...

Data Objects in Kotlin

Data objects are a new Kotlin language feature introduced in version 1.7.20 and are currently planned to be released in version 1.9. We’ll take a closer look at what they are and what issue they are trying to solve. What issue are data objects solving? Below we have a typi...