Thanks! The track shown here was made in grasshopper with THR code. I personally make my tracks in Adobe illustrator and convert it to an SVG file for the table to read it. Everything needs to be one continuous line, and I need to be conscious of how thin/thick I make certain areas so that when the shadows cast it will show what I intend. If the sand in my table is too thin, it looks fine, but the shadows aren't as deep and the art looks flatter/thicker sand loses detail work. It was definitely a learning curve, but it's a lot of fun! Its very meditative for me.

Tame Impala - The less i know better

Can you explain how you designed/generated the path? Is it an algorithm of some kind? You must also have a very good understanding of the sand displacement behavior. Amazing work.

I thought the same!

Thank you for the info. It's heckin mesmerizing.

Starts at $637 for the mini, up to $8500 for the coffee table.

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I feel zenned.

This is from Sisyphus industries : ) I have both the mini and side table- the side table I love to upload my own art tracks!

How much would you take for this wonderful contraption?

Super-vibey!

Tame Impala album cover looking ass.

No wheels! The robot is attached to the bottom of the sandbed. There are two stepper motors that make the ball move in a second, then another that makes it goes in and out. I am also able to connect it to wifi with a app so I can control the speed of the ball, what plays and even the lights. It reads THR and SVG files, which is great for me personally cause I love being able to draw in the sand.

As in a little robot with a magnetic head and wheels for feet drives in patterns dragging the ball behind it? Can you explain or show further how it works? I'm really curious now.

(Should have put that in the title.)

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I want one of those but they are crazy expensive.

reminds me of the movie “in the tall grass”. it’s about an alien monolith in a corn field.

thanks - the code is kind of a jumble unfortunately - the process for making this was first generating the automata separately, then using a very small script to put everything together - so w/o the source images the code wouldn't really work - also, I just sort of hacked it all together w/o any aim towards readability...

Blue is lava

Kinda! Instead of it being pulled manually, there's a little robot dragging the ball around until I tell it to stop.

Cool. Was this made using the old magnet trick? (magnet under surface manipulated to drag ball bearing on top)

So chickens are descendants of dinosaurs right? I wonder if Raptors and T-Rex's also did that forward and backward neck motion when they walked?

I'd play this game.

Yume Nikki vibes