USB-C Updated 2025-07-16
Art Updated 2025-07-16
Stuff that is beautiful but useless because it does not make food or houses cheaper.
Or from Ciro Santilli's best random thoughts:
Without technology, one cannot survive. Without art, one cannot live.
But that sure enough has a Jesus semi-precursor, and likely many others: man shall not live by bread alone.
There is some art however that lives in the fine intersection between beauty and usefulness:
Ionic bond Updated 2025-07-16
Waring's problem Updated 2025-07-16
And when it can't, attempt to classify which subset of the integers can be reached. E.g. Legendre's three-square theorem.
Carl Zeiss SMT Updated 2025-07-16
Subsidiary of Carl Zeiss AG and also part owned by ASML, sole optics vendor of ASML as of 2020.
d-orbital Updated 2025-07-16
Fermentation Updated 2025-07-16
f-orbital Updated 2025-07-16
p-orbital Updated 2025-07-16
ASCII art Updated 2025-07-16
It should be a crime to automatically generate ASCII art from images.
For some ASCII art in the Bitcoin blockchain see: ASCII art.
        z

        ^
        |    *------*
        |   /|      /
        |  / |     /|
top -------*------* |
        |  | *----|-*
        |  |/     | /
        |  |      |/
bottom ----*------*
        |  |      |
        +--|------|-----> y
       /   |      |
      /    |      |
  x  /     |      |
    v
          left   right
Code 1.
3D cube plot ASCII art by Ciro Santilli (2021)

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