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I was curious how this thing works and asked Claude to visualize it -- mostly to see how good Fable is and I have to say, what it made was good enough for me to
by mohsen1 4mo ago
I was curious how this thing works and asked Claude to visualize it -- mostly to see how good Fable is and I have to say, what it made was good enough for me to get a gist of it. Posted it here
https://azimi.me/axial-flux-motor-explainer/ https://azimi.me/axial-flux-motor-explainer/
- prepend 4mo agoThis viz is superficially neat, but hard to get info out of. It seems like a demo in a movie. What did you like most about it?
- phatfish 4mo agoYup, the visualization didn't help me understand the concept any more than plain text. Superficial in the way that you would expect from a system that has no real world reference for what it is creating. To get something better I expect more than a one-shot is needed, and the knowledge to guide it in the right way.
- testdelacc1 4mo agoLook at the beauty of an interactive visualisation of an internal combustion engine made by a human being - https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/ https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/ It’s possible to actually learn something from this, whereas the one fable created is just slop with pretty colours.
- engineer_22 4mo agoTbh it did a pretty good job
- csomar 4mo agoThe issue with this is, without an expert, how do I know I am getting an accurate representation?
- deaux 4mo agoYou don't. You didn't know before either. The difference is trust. How do you trust it as much as you do the hypothetical humans making such representations? That's up to you.
- csomar 4mo agoI think humans develop expertise and brand names and get called out when they make mistakes and if they are too wrong, their reputation is damaged. This doesn’t seem to apply to AI for some reason. It keeps generating incorrect results after incorrect results, yet people continue to trust its output. I don’t know what to make of this.
- generic92034 4mo agoYou first heard about this effect with the phrase "computer says no".
- JTbane 4mo agoI've starting going back to books, either at the library or e-books. Librarians are very good at telling you if nonfiction is biased, outdated, or incorrect.
- ncr100 4mo ago"Trust" is an abused term, nowadays. Human trust differs from mathematical trust. And branding / marketing abuses the ambiguity. There is no shame in a "likely to hallucinate" model that can be instantiated 1,000 times across 1,000 different machines spread throughout our planet. So, human trust is broken by machine trust.
- oinoom 4mo agowhat was the prompt for this, did you use a CAD/threejs skill or grab a model from somewhere?
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- amluto 4mo agoI am not an expert, but I do know some physics and I know how to read, and I’m pretty sure this is full of BS. Also it’s a really crappy visualization.
- utopiah 4mo agoThanks for sharing. I wish it was a bit more interactive especially when there are parameters, e.g. "Widen the disc and torque rises with diameter cubed" I wish there was a slider to see that effect and thus maybe why there might be a sweet spot. Also I have "The Way Things Work" on my desk right now and can't help but wonder, could you adapt some of the pages of the book this way? It seems like exactly the kind of content that would benefit from such 3D (interactive) visual explainers.
- mohsen1 4mo agoCode is here https://github.com/mohsen1/axial-flux-motor-explainer https://github.com/mohsen1/axial-flux-motor-explainer Feel free to steal! This was one shot with Claude Code. You can take it and adopt it to your need
- utopiah 4mo agoOof... well thanks for sharing but that's basically unusable for me. It neatly all packed in a 2MB file containing all assets, threejs, etc. I assumed it's based on a three.js template due to the `Rendered live with three.js · Drag anywhere to orbit the model` kind of showcase but unfortunately that's not linked. I also imagine the 3D models are more that primitives (at least the arrows showcasing the flow) but I don't know where they came from, if that are also from a template or repository or if they are generated from a tube mesh. So... I'm genuinely grateful that you took the time to share but I don't think I can do something with this except restarting from scratch, especially if it's one-shot. I'd suggest, if you don't mind the extra effort, that you add a ReadMe.md in the repository to clarify how you did this, at least model name, version and prompt.
- mohsen1 4mo agoI mentioned elsewhere too. This was a one-shot thing that made me wow so I thought I share. You're kind with your comments but others are just hating it, even so I said 1. I don't know this motor technology and 2. It was a one shot experiment If I had time and making a polished web page was my goal I could probably do better but this was not the point!
- tclancy 4mo agoEvery plausibly cool electric car innovation leads me to the same thought: “5-10 years from now, the restomod potential will be wild once these come down in cost.” For this, I am imagining retrofitting a Pontiac Fiero to reduce as much weight as possible and see if extended flight becomes possible.
- ardit33 4mo agoNumber 1 problem is battery weight though. Not electric motors. I have a 84 w123 300D, and would love to add some more power to it. Lightweight hub motors would be great, but any decent size battery would be at least 200lbs+, which is hard to do on a old chasy.
- j_maffe 4mo agoI think the cited weight loss comes from energy efficiency gains leading to less battery capacity needed.
- FabHK 4mo agoElectric engines are already very efficient (particularly compared to internal combustion). If you go from 90% to 95% efficiency, you don't save much in terms of battery. ETA: Internal combustion engines half a century ago had an efficiency of 20%, now they're at 40%. That cuts the fuel you need to carry in half. Electric engines are near 100%, and as I said, going from 90% to 95% efficiency cuts required battery by a bit more than 5%, so peanuts.
- ajuc 4mo agoGoing from 90% to 95% efficiency you're halving the thermal loses, thus reducing the need for cooling by half. It's a big deal. Same with going from 99% to 99.5% efficiency. It still reduces the cooling needed by half.
- testdelacc1 4mo ago
- lwhi 4mo agoHonestly, I don't think this actually provided much above a paragraph of text. The visuals didn't show much, and I learnt a lot more from one of the YouTube videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCO633KE7RA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCO633KE7RA) posted below. It's neat that a whole interactive deck can be produced without effort. But it's just not very interesting.
- detritus 4mo agoYeah, I'm at once awed that something like that can be auto-generated (I presume?) and disappointed that it doesn't usefully or practically improve my understanding, beyond written synopses and human videos, at all. Stuff like this reminds me that we still need a human in the loop to edit, to improve, to advance. Auto-from-scratch just doesn't really achieve anything of actual value.
- lwhi 4mo agoIt's unfortunately just slop.
- hamburglar 4mo agoCan you elaborate a little on what you asked Claude to do here? This is a pretty impressive one-shot.
- amunozo 4mo agoYou made this with Fable? How many prompt? It is amazing.
- phplovesong 4mo agoNice! Did fable generate that animation? Looks crisp
- socalgal2 4mo agocan you share your prompts?
- kristjansson 4mo ago> 42 kW/kg Is that right? One could get ~200hp from something the size and mass of a small dog?
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- KellyCriterion 4mo agoTHIS was the output of one prompt? WOW, pretty cool!! :-) Esp.if you scroll etc. Impressive.