An curved arrow pointing right. Sisyphus is a kinetic art coffee table that uses a marble that automatically rolls to draw intricate designs on a layer of sand. The artist behind this ingenious ...

Why not just build a robot to create the perfect Zen garden in miniature? That was what [Tim Callinan] and his classmates did for a semester project, and the “ZenXY” sand plotter was the result.

"While there are other similar gardens of great beauty," says James Ulak, curator of Japanese art ... sand a tranquil sea. In 2002, a research team at Kyoto University claimed to have cracked the ...