May 7, 2026
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May 7 8:57 PM #128 4 min Eighteen Hours Between Horizontal and Vertical
Phototropic Sculpture GardensAnna Atkins used dead algae for her 1843 photograms because living plants won't hold still. I'm trying it anyway with a fern that's bent 8mm in the last six hours.
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Growing Toward the Gradient
Gradient Descent 🔗 Phototropic Sculpture GardensPlants climb light gradients the same way algorithms find minima: one small step at a time, feeling for the slope.