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by fsloth 9mo ago
Graphics is not an academic body of knowledge as such. It's a bag of tricks developed over 50 years, going hand in hand with industrial hardware development. There _is_ deep and rich academic framework around the subject, but I think t
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by fsloth 9mo ago
What you _can_ do is add slots for magnets. You can totally make "snap on" toys like this but it's a different concept.
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by fsloth 9mo ago
I actually think what you suggest _would_ be brilliant if there was a printer that printed as nice and detailed parts as Lego does from ABS. The digital ecosystem for that would be crazy. But. Modern consumer printers are way better than de
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by fsloth 9mo ago
Cloudflare has a ~zero cost hosting service if all you need is static web page.
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by fsloth 10mo ago
"since the economic market for artists is being destroyed" I don't see it being destroyed. I mean the market for art. That's a market for tangible things made by specific humans, pieces that are unique. Very hard to see
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Mapbox generates detailed 3D building geometry from footprint data(mapbox.com)
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by fsloth 10mo ago
As a reference point to paintings in antique - these portraits from Roman Egypt are quite nice - from around 0 AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits
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by fsloth 10mo ago
With the horrible version of the statues? They just look ... bad. While photography destroyed academic art almost to extinction, thank heavens it's still trained and you can find practicing artists. Finding good ones might be a bit har
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by fsloth 10mo ago
"many people are operating outside their area of expertise on this subject." Exactly. I takes years of really hard work to get good at this stuff. Decades. I do realize research budgets are not that awesome, but when claims are of
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by fsloth 10mo ago
I think the museums should hire trained academic artists to do best guess reproductions next to the garish ones. The garish ones are _equally_ misleading. Imagine you got a reproduction of a "five year old with finger paints" vers
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by fsloth 10mo ago
"decide what the software is supposed to do in the first place." After 20 years of software development I think that is because most of the software out there, is the method itself of finding out what it's supposed to do. The
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by fsloth 10mo ago
At work I'm implementing new 3D map geometry stuff for my employer (Mapbox) and as a a sideproject I'm building a simple 3D modeling software that gets you from idea to reliable, solid parts fast ( https://www.adashape.c
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by fsloth 10mo ago
I love Nausicaa but I would argue technically it has some weaknesses in the narrative and pacing compared to later works. So in case someone comes to this without previous exposure Nausicaa may not be the best place to start. It _is_ nice.
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by fsloth 10mo ago
Reminds me of General Atomics. They wanted to build a spaceship (project Orion), but first had to come up with something they could sell immediately, hence they designed the commercially very succesfull Triga reactor.
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by fsloth 10mo ago
Exactly. The most astounding thing about the millenia old megastructures is the instant human connection it creates across the vast stretches of time. They are not alien . They are deeply familiar.
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by fsloth 10mo ago
” how can you explain how megalithic 100-ton bricks structures were build by "primitives"” How can you explain we can today build structures that are 800m tall or reroute rivers? Honestly, good ol human craftsmanship multiplied by
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by fsloth 10mo ago
The comment is slightly incoherent in it's argumentation, but factually correct. I think the point is the energy policies in some of the nordics are as arbitrary and politics driven as anywhere. How this is directly related to the sand
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by fsloth 11mo ago
C++ can be written as the optimal industrial language it is. Simple core concepts year after year. Minimal adaptation. The key thing to understand you are still using C with sugar on top. So you need to understand how the language concepts
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by fsloth 11mo ago
A slow compiler impedes developers velocity, not only taking longer, but breaking their concentration. The whole point of a programming language is to be an industrial productivity tool that is faster to use than hand writing assembly. Perf
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by fsloth 11mo ago
I get the feeling author would just like to use a better language, like F# or Ocaml, and completely misses the point what makes C++ valuable. C++ is valuable, because the existing tooling enables you to optimize the runtime peformance of a
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by fsloth 11mo ago
” The reality is CAD kernels are incredibly difficult, multi-decade projects, and part of the issue is a lot of the domain expertise in them is literally dying off or retiring.” Well, they are complex but not impossible. I understand for ex
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by fsloth 11mo ago
"but don't share the prompts." To be honest I don't want to see anyone elses prompts generally because what works is so damn context sensitive - and seem to be so random what works and what not. Even though someone else
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by fsloth 11mo ago
You are welcome! To expand slightly. There are common parts and stuff that is totally different. For example the core parts in graphics and geometry are always familiar wether you work in games, vfx or what ever CAD industry. But then all
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by fsloth 11mo ago
You are welcome! To be honest this domain is sort of an obsession mine and I'm thrilled to discuss it. Hope my monologue was helpfull!
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by fsloth 11mo ago
Imperial is more familiar to you. You could just have said that. Everybody hates swapping between units of measurement. You pick one and stick with it. It's natural having the need to move between two measurement systems irritates you.
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by fsloth 11mo ago
I think the first question to tackle is _to whom_ is the program targeted at. Who is the expert user? What are they building? What are the upstream and downstream application? See, this is why this area is hard from software pov. It _looks_
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by fsloth 11mo ago
”actively stifling innovation.” Weeelll … it’s a 70 year old field if you start counting from NC. It’s also possible most of the low hanging innovation fruits were picked long ago. Also innovation required decades of _really hard work_ in a
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by fsloth 11mo ago
To start with it can’t be universal. Models that you can edit (unless they are really dumb like DWG) are almost always domain specific. You can - and should be able - to export to a universal format though. But having a universal format is
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by fsloth 11mo ago
(I’m going to reorder quotes from above) ” rest of us could be "off to the races" without the upfront cost ACIS or Parasolid.” Just start coding your CAD tool dude if you want to! You can totally start with OpenCascade. All these
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by fsloth 11mo ago
” The problem is that the industry doesn't really know what it wants. ” I would argue they do. What we call ’CAD’ today - digital design of surfaces for manufacturing - originated in aerospace and automotive industries. What they _want

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