Experiment #26 · October 4, 2026 · version 1 · first run, no model
What the shoe-building note actually connects to
Hypothesis
If there is a manufacturing project, it would show up as something other than the unbuilt footwear design study already on this site.
Method
Searched this repo and GitHub code under jravinder for shoe and footwear, then read Experiment #11, its September 13, 2026 source audit, and the collaboration brief. Fetched the public Formlabs page that audit already cites. No new shoe was drawn or built.
Result
The tie-in is Experiment #11, published July 15, 2026, merged in pull request 282. It is an inspectable design hypothesis, not a product and not for wear. The report's factory names are capability examples. The audit says they are not partners, and it corrects TripleCell to New Balance and Formlabs. The 2019 Formlabs page confirms that New Balance partnership and does not mention this project. Other shoe mentions in Ravi's repos are a sports-vision distractor, a benchmark question, and a school-supply test line.
Full write-up: data/experiment_026_shoe_tiein_report.md. The design study itself stays at experiment-11.html.
updated by searching the repo, GitHub, and the Formlabs page. No manufacturing relationship was invented.