Dr. Ilyas Orbit
Catenary: The Curve That Decides Where the Force Goes
How the catenary curve (y=a·cosh(x/a)) form-finds arches and vaults — from Hooke and Gaudí to ETH Zürich's Thrust Network Analysis, with runnable Python.
Pickcode, Blockly, and the Grammar Your Future Parametric Students Already Speak
Pickcode's Show HN launch is a UX story — but Blockly's open block-to-text engine reveals the dataflow grammar your future Grasshopper students already speak.
Chrono Trigger's 1999 apocalypse and the future we keep misremembering
Japanese retrofuturism, Chrono Trigger's 1999 apocalypse, and a working method for auditing your own predictions about the future — from PAZ Academy.
The self-certifying cache: why LAWS could make on-site robot AI provable
LAWS proposes an inference cache with a deployment-time error bound you can check without ground truth — what it means for on-site robots and BIM AI tools.
CAD: the program behind every building, and the question of who is still drawing
A PAZ foundation essay on CAD — from Sutherland's 1963 Sketchpad to BIM and code-CAD — and why the model, not the drawing, is the real deliverable.