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This is gorgeous
Made a potter's clay interaction.
tol.is/clay
The surface moves past the pointer. You don't drag geometry around, you press into the spin and the clay shapes itself around your touch, one revolution at a time.
Patience is an input.
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GeoLibre v2.0.0 is here!
GeoLibre is a free and open-source geospatial platform that runs everywhere: as a native desktop app, in the browser, on Android, and embedded right inside Jupyter notebooks. It brings modern web mapping, cloud-native data formats, and a full processing toolbox together in one place, all built on MapLibre and deck.gl with no proprietary lock-in.
Our first major release adds a true 3D globe, takes mapping beyond Earth to Mars and the Moon, lets styles round-trip with QGIS, and turns loaded vector layers into editable, save-back-to-source data.
What's new in v2.0.0
- Planetary mapping: explore Mars, the Moon, and other bodies with the OpenPlanetaryMap basemaps, a per-project ellipsoid, and a planet switcher right in the Layers panel.
- CesiumJS 3D globe: switch any map pane to a photorealistic 3D globe that stays camera-synced with your 2D maps and mirrors the layer stack.
- True 3D data: render vector layers with Z coordinates, load TIN/MultiPatch 3D shapefiles, and display KML/KMZ Collada (.dae) 3D models.
- Symbology interchange: import and export vector styling as OGC SLD, QGIS QML, and Mapbox GL style JSON, so styles round-trip between GeoLibre, QGIS, and the Mapbox/MapLibre ecosystem.
- Editable source layers: edit vector layers and write the changes back to their source, including GeoPackage and GeoJSON files and PostGIS database tables.
- Weather and sky: a new Weather menu with live cloud and precipitation radar overlays (RainViewer), plus a Google Earth-style sun position simulation for realistic lighting.
- Terrain and lighting: double-click the terrain control to set vertical exaggeration, and view any scene in true 3D relief.
- Smarter data import: bring in CSV without coordinates as an attribute table, split GPX track points and route points into separate layers, and load macOS-zipped and projected-CRS shapefiles.
- Raster in the browser: build normalized-difference indices for any HTTP COG and extract COG/WMS/XYZ bounding-box subsets client-side.
- Field Calculator upgrades: compute geometry length and area directly on your features.
- Attribute table: multi-select rows with Ctrl and Shift, plus faster navigation.
- Google Earth-style extras: "View in Google Maps / Google Earth" actions, camera-reset keyboard shortcuts, and a UTM easting/northing grid mode for the Gridlines overlay.
- New plugins: a Mapillary coverage and street-level image viewer, a Historical Imagery panel, and an Elevation Profile tool.
- Fully localized: all 13 language catalogs are complete, so the entire UI is translatable.
Try it out
- Launch GeoLibre Web: web.geolibre.app
- GitHub: github.com/opengeos/GeoLibre
- Documentation: geolibre.app
- Release notes: github.com/opengeos/GeoLibre…
#GIS #GeospatialData #OpenSource #RemoteSensing #DataVisualization #MapLibre #GeoLibre
Forward deployed engineers are what happens when the polymath becomes a hiring profile AI made it possible for one person to hold design, product, engineering, sales, and customer context at once. These people were always rare. They've never had this much leverage Anori is hiring
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there's no catch; SAM3 is open source and really good
one of the things it does really well is object tracking, even in crazy complex scenes like basketball
probably my favorite computer vision model ever
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微软发布了一个 4B模型，可以在 3 秒内把任意图像转换为 3D 资产。
它使用一种名为 O‑Voxel 的新几何格式，并且可以在 CUDA 上用不到 100 毫秒转换为带纹理的网格模型。
输出为 GLB 文件，包含完整的 PBR 材质，可直接用于 Blender、Unity 和 Unreal。
完全开源👇
兄弟们！答应你们晚上开源，它来了
image to 3D模型目前只对接了线上：tripo3d.ai
你们也可以改其他家，或者本地模型
记得点赞关注，用的好GitHub也给一颗小星星👇
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Introducing Gemini Omni 🔮........ Omni is our new model that can create anything from any input — starting with video (think Nano Banana but for video). Available in the Gemini App, Flow, and YouTube, with API support coming soon!
Open source is the best part of working in tech. @huggingface keeps proving why — shipping the tools, hosting the models, and making serious AI accessible to anyone who wants to build.
I tested @huggingface ml-intern, given the prompt
"Fine-tune a Segment Anything Model (SAM) on a useful medical dataset. Train the model, and provide a comprehensive tutorial in a Jupyter Notebook file. Additionally, create a Hugging Face article/blog post documenting everything you have done."
It did it all autonomously:
- Researched via hf_papers & searched GitHub/HF Hub
- Found an HF dataset & wrote the finetuning script
- Trained it using HF compute (took ~1 hour)
- Pushed the weights & wrote the article
Here are the model weights, code, and the blog it generated:
hf article
huggingface.co/Mayank022/blo…
model weights
huggingface.co/Mayank022/sam…
Awesome stuff @akseljoonas , looking forward to use this. 🔥
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Trails predict where land will reprice. Years before the cranes show up.
New York saw it. Chicago saw it. Atlanta saw it.
Dallas is next. And it's running the largest version of this experiment any American city has ever attempted.
Here's the pattern:
Every major American city is fighting the same battle. The suburbs keep growing. The urban core fights to hold its tax base. People say they want walkability and community. Then they leave for places that feel safer and easier to navigate.
Cities have big ambitions. Dallas. Chicago. Atlanta. They want to attract people, businesses, and jobs. That takes money. Aging infrastructure needs replacing. New amenities need building.
The tax base isn't shrinking. But it's not growing fast enough to fund those ambitions without raising rates. And raising rates pushes more people out.
There's another approach.
Build infrastructure that makes land more valuable. Not highways. Not stadiums.
Trails.
It sounds too simple.
When you build a connected trail network, you create the walkability people crave. Neighborhoods that were cut off become accessible. Land values rise. Tax revenue grows without raising anyone's rate.
The evidence is hard to argue with.
New York built the High Line. Property values jumped 35%. Chicago built The 606. Home prices spiked 48%. Atlanta built the BeltLine. Developers have poured more than $9 billion into land along it.
The pattern holds whether the city runs red, blue, or purple. Build the connection. Land reprices.
Dallas is now running this experiment at the largest scale any American city has attempted.
The Loop Dallas is a 50-mile trail circuit. It connects the Katy Trail, White Rock Lake, the Trinity Forest, Fair Park, the Design District, and Pleasant Grove. Every quadrant of the city.
The Design District already proves the thesis.
The city built a short connector to plug the area into the Uptown trail network. Before, it was an isolated pocket of warehouses. After, it became part of the Uptown ecosystem. Taxable value climbed 383%. Developers flipped their blueprints. Buildings now face the trail, not the street.
South Dallas is next.
A 1,200-foot bridge is opening the Trinity Forest Spine Trail. Neighborhoods cut off for decades by the river, the railroad, and the highways are about to become connected.
Every city that built a loop trail system saw the same result. Remove the barriers. Capital follows.
Trails aren't expenses.
They're leading indicators. They tell you where land is about to reprice, years before the cranes arrive.
If you want to understand where Dallas is heading, don't watch the skyline.
Follow the trail.
We just graduated from X, the moonshot factory
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Lots of ink has been spilled on the subject but I've been noodling on another angle. I believe the best way to describe 2026 is the beginning of the Software Industrial Revolution.
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📢📢📢 360Anything
I am excited to announce this new project, which to me represents the apex in geometry free novel view synthesi for world models.
No triangles/splats!!
No camera poses!!
yet you get a whole world to navigate!
📢Introducing 360Anything, our method for lifting any perspective image or video to gravity-aligned 360° panoramas without using any camera or 3D information. This enables consistent novel view synthesis and 3D scene reconstruction.
Project page: 360anything.github.io/
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recipe-studio.com?v=1 I made a thing, would love to know your thoughts
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Very grateful to the @NYC_DOT for extending our autonomous driving permit in New York City until March 31, 2026. While there is not yet a legal path to operating in New York, we're excited to continue laying the groundwork for serving New Yorkers in the future.
The project I'm working on at Google X is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in the AEC space. See the description below:
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Wow, Dr. Spin over here, this is actually insane
I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:
I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.
I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.
I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction.
I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void.
Jeff
The project I'm working on is hiring:
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6.John Russell Pope – 20th-century classical practitioner.
7.Julia Morgan – 20th-century classical practitioner.
8.Delano and Aldrich (firm) – 20th-century classical practitioners.
9.Renaissance architects:
•Alberti
•Brunelleschi
•Michelangelo
•Palladio
10.Enlightenment architects:
•Robert Adam
•John Soane
•Christopher Wren (also listed under public buildings).
11.19th-century architects:
•Benjamin Henry Latrobe
•Robert Mills
•Thomas U. Walter
Architectural Styles
1.Classical architecture:
•Neoclassical
•Georgian
•Federal
•Greek Revival
•Beaux-Arts
•Art Deco
2.Brutalist architecture – Defined as massive, block-like, geometric, and using exposed poured concrete.
3.Deconstructivist architecture – Characterized by fragmentation, disorder, discontinuity, distortion, skewed geometry, and instability.
4.Traditional architecture – Includes classical styles and others like:
•Gothic
•Romanesque
•Pueblo Revival
•Spanish Colonial
•Mediterranean styles rooted in American regions.