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Wrote about an Eno quote from How Buildings Learn. Thinking about how the gradient of constraints in a space give you an entry point into its story. feed.grantcuster.com/post/2026-09...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 13/09/2026

Experimenting with importing web pages and text files onto the canvas.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 11/09/2026

Putting together frames and cards to preview and think through writing:

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grant @grantcuster.com · 10/09/2026

Thinking about the asteroids tabletop, which was somewhat inexplicably at my orthodontist's growing up. Two player screen would be fun - though I think most practical would be each user gets their own screen but you can toss things across between them.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 10/09/2026

Working through creation and deletion on the tabletop. Two-finger tap feels a little more reliable than double-tap, and paint-select feels great.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 09/09/2026

Input capture on the tabletop

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grant @grantcuster.com · 31/08/2026

Giving a talk on my tabletop setup at Brooklyn Web Workers tonight - tickets at pools.events/event/QZru62...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 11/08/2026

CSS styles and text are applied per cell based on position. Global styles can be applied at the top.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 08/08/2026

Testing out OBS controls on the tabletop.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 07/08/2026

Window management from the digital tabletop, running through Niri scripts:

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grant @grantcuster.com · 05/08/2026

Windows minimize onto the tabletop - then I can throw them back

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grant @grantcuster.com · 04/08/2026

Trying out an extension to send quotes onto the board:

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grant @grantcuster.com · 03/08/2026

Experimenting with throwing into the trash on the tabletop. Much better than selecting and hitting keyboard delete.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 27/07/2026

Trying out frames as documents. Could make it easy to share and shift ideas between essays.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 27/07/2026

Trying out canvas-based paragraph reordering pared with a live document preview.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 22/07/2026

Experimenting with calibrating the overhead camera. Using OpenCV to process out the lens distortion. Book text is just readable at 4k.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 16/07/2026

Take it on a walk (works nicely as a PWA): branch.constraint.systems

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grant @grantcuster.com · 16/07/2026

New from me on Constraint Systems: Branch - A collaborative collage of tree and branch photos. Take a photo and trace the flow to add to a branch. branch.constraint.systems

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grant @grantcuster.com · 29/06/2026

Put together a prototype writerdeck with the modos dev kit. Direct sunlight does work. It's a bit bulky and I should probably use one of my minimal low-profile keyboards, but I do love typing on the kinesis the most. In some other world I'd cut up and mod the kinesis body directly.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 27/06/2026

Experimenting with putting the embedded texts from cosine.constraint.systems into UMAP and then fitting to a grid. Not as glanceable as images would be but I think there's probably some interesting moves to make here.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 27/06/2026

sphere-paint.constraint.systems got a little rowdy and then somebody came in and erased (drew over with white) the whole thing.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 27/06/2026

Delighted by the Marble Answering Machine by Durrell Bishop durrellbishop.com/ideasresearch via Matt Webb's post on form interconnected.org/home/2026/06... I'd love to make something like this

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grant @grantcuster.com · 25/06/2026

Wikimedia concepts embedded and then mapped to a sphere with UMAP. Trying out topic clusters as continents. Not really sure where it's going.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 23/06/2026

Putting together a personal RSS reader that always shows the original articles. With vim-style navigation.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 17/06/2026

I saw the bowls (clinamen v.11 by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot). A perfect generative piece because you can immediately understand how it operates but the results are no less magical. It feels very like something from nature in that way.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 15/06/2026

Experimenting more with tiling at different levels-of-detail on a sphere. Trying to make a little world.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 12/06/2026

I think there's something fun to do with the fact that the render sticks around after disconnecting - though naively doing it I get some lost sections. Such a different property vs non e-ink screens.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 12/06/2026

Trying out the small Modos Paper Monitor dev kit on an overcast day at the park. The high refresh rate is impressive and seems great for writing and coding. Screen is glossy though. I've held off on writerdeck builds for a while but it's really tempting to try and put something together with this.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 04/06/2026

Slanted Magazine put together a great collection of digital tools including several of my constraint.systems projects. It's really fun to see these in print! www.slanted.de/news/digital...

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grant @grantcuster.com · 31/05/2026

More 'trajectories'

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grant @grantcuster.com · 30/05/2026

Fun to see meaning changes cascade. (modified Pope Leo wikipedia article)

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grant @grantcuster.com · 30/05/2026

Applying the 'trajectory' of a paragraph to a different sample sentence. Here we seem to have successfully moved to cat space.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 29/05/2026

glitching the embedding values and recovering

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grant @grantcuster.com · 29/05/2026

experimenting with vec2text "the lazy brown fox jumps over the quick dog"

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grant @grantcuster.com · 23/05/2026

Someone has drawn a nice flower-eye (amongst many other things).

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grant @grantcuster.com · 22/05/2026

New on Constraint Systems: Sphere Paint Multi-player painting without edge sphere-paint.constraint.systems A sphere is interesting because all points are continuous on all sides. You can respond, extend, or connect in any direction.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 19/05/2026

And as a radial tree (by way of d3 observablehq.com/@d3/radial-t...)

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grant @grantcuster.com · 19/05/2026

Trying out EVōC (evoc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to hierarchically cluster all my embedded blog posts. A lot of my posts are over roughly similar looking material - it's cool how much nuance it can split out of them.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 14/05/2026

I have different plans for drawing on this sphere but the effect of rotating (with arrow keys) while drawing is fun. Spherical etch-a-sketch.

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grant @grantcuster.com · 13/05/2026

Thinking about the different tumblr post types and especially about how fun it was to decide how your theme should handle each post type. Could be a fun atproto/blog extension. Could also be fun to have an llm agent with tools to build out post types and display on-demand.

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