Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers Find a Mathematical Pattern Used in City Planning Hidden in the Leaves of a Common Houseplant

The major veins of Chinese money plant leaves form what's called a Voronoi diagram. It might be caused by a plant-growth ...

Gold Leaf and Foliage Motifs Plaster This Paris Left Bank Apartment

Marthe Simon and Paul Peller, the work and life partners behind the firm Marthe Architecture, leaned heavily upon gold leaf, ...
GitHub

INSID3: Training-Free In-Context Segmentation with DINOv3

To get started, create a Conda environment and install the required dependencies. The experiments in the paper were run with PyTorch 2.7.1 (CUDA 12.6), which we provide as a reference configuration.
GitHub

Curt-Park/human-parser-comfyui-node-in-pure-python

Fast, VRAM-light ComfyUI nodes to generate masks for specific body parts and clothes or fashion items. Runs on CPU and CUDA. Made with 💚 by the CozyMantis squad. LIP is the largest single person ...
The Lancet

X-ray dark-field chest imaging for detection and quantification of emphysema in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a diagnostic accuracy study

aDepartment of Physics, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany bMunich School of BioEngineering, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany cInstitute for Advanced Study, Technical ...
The Guardian

What the Maoist slavery sect tells us about the far left

Far-left 'splittist' sects like Comrade Bala's proliferated in the 70s – and a genuine desire for change was corrupted The recent Monty Python revival has come with a bizarre reminder from south ...