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Serious request: can someone please solve this for moving furniture around in 3D? Let me take an AR scan of a flight of steps with a corner and another scan of

Serious request: can someone please solve this for moving furniture around in 3D? Let me take an AR scan of a flight of steps with a corner and another scan of a couch, and tell me if it's possible to do the move.

dgfitz 2y ago
Looked over every comment hoping to find this. Kind of negates the whole article, and it should.
- Sharlin 2y ago
  It does not negate the article in any way. This was a mathematical thought experiment and an optimization problem, not about real furniture in real corridors.
lostlogin 2y ago
It comes down to millimetres and I just wouldn’t trust an AR scan.
- simondanerd 2y ago
  It always does. Always. Never a spare inch when moving a couch.
  - mmooss 2y ago
    That would be a big coincidence, wouldn't it? I don't beleive in coincidence: You stop optimizing when you can get it around the corner. 'You always find something in the last place you look.'
    - lostlogin 2y ago
      Another day of saying ‘I took the first solution that worked’.
- Invictus0 2y ago
  Fine, let me enter the dimensions manually
  - lostlogin 2y ago
    Yeah, that’s not much better. Measuring a couch isn’t too hard, but measuring a corridor in an old building is fraught. Nothing is square and surfaces and mouldings are often curved.