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by seveibar 1y ago
Author here: I don’t think the commenter here has set the same focal length, the focal length can make a surface appear curved, I set it explicitly to a low value to test the algorithm’s ability to handle the increased distortion. You can g
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by seveibar 1y ago
The goal for this vanilla TS renderer is to have visual diffing on GitHub and a renderer that works without a browser environment. Most 3D renderers focus on realtime speed, not file size and runtime portability. I think in practice we will
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by seveibar 1y ago
Defs saved the day here on file size- repeating the image (which we usually base64 encode) would have caused a much larger file size and made rasterization much more appealing!
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Show HN: I made a 3D SVG Renderer that projects textures without rasterization(seve.blog)
206 points by seveibar 1y ago|71 comments
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by seveibar 1y ago
This weekend working on an open-source algorithm to automatically lay out schematics. Easy problem to do poorly and very difficult to do well! My current approach is “match to existing corpus of well-laid-out schematics, then adapt until th
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by seveibar 1y ago
Yep! It basically runs pg_dump and categorizes all of the output into different files so it should be comprehensive. I think there's `functions/function_name.sql`, `misc.sql`, `triggers.sql` etc.
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by seveibar 1y ago
This solves a major problem that I built an npm package called "pgstrap"[1] for. It generates a "database structure" directory so that my database schema is available to LLMs (it also makes code review easier because you
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by seveibar 1y ago
XY coordinates are more or less temporary. We are working on llm-compatible layout definitions which operate more with constraints or loose auto placement specifications than XY directly eg https://docs.tscircuit.com/footpri
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by seveibar 1y ago
We think that intuitive element names should be added to the tscircuit spec, even if they're redundant/there are multiple ways to do something. Right now you would probably use a <chip /> (very general purpose), but &lt
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by seveibar 1y ago
(tscircuit maintainer here) It might be easier to think of tscircuit as an electronics CAD kernel. We're MIT licensed and web-compatible, so we would make a great foundation for people building new EDA tools or people who would like to
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by seveibar 1y ago
tscircuit maintainer here, we actually do support constraint-based modeling for footprints, although we don't use it often because we also support "short string" footprints which are often faster https://docs.tscir
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by seveibar 1y ago
Most likely you won’t be asking for specific things like “3mm hole 3in from the side”, you’ll say things like “Create a plastic enclosure sized to go under a desk, ok add a usb receptacle opening, ok add flanges with standard screw holes” I
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by seveibar 1y ago
Agree, although the acronym in the article could be interpreted to mean “you are going to read it, so index it appropriately”, which is sort of bad advice and can lead to overindexing. There is probably something better for “add appropriate
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by seveibar 1y ago
Would love to use this for interactive tscircuit tutorials! Is it easy to create a course? The output looks great! Is the web preview saved as a video or rendered dynamically? In the case of tscircuit, we run an autorouter in the background
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by seveibar 2y ago
Very fun idea, I had not considered training on existing work (IP is so sensitive I just couldn't think of a way to get enough) My approach is slightly different for building the dataset. I think we should bootstrap an absolutely massi
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by seveibar 2y ago
Author here. I would recommend booting up React Cosmos[1] and prompting Claude to "generate a react app that...". You can visualize inside of Claude then when you're finished, drop the output of Claude into React Cosmos as a
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by seveibar 2y ago
Love that you tried the tool and couldn't agree more. We think that new layout paradigms similar to flex and CSS grid need to be invented for circuit layout. This is an active area of research for us!
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by seveibar 2y ago
Believe in the cache! There's a reason most websites can be written in javascript now and not have major issues, the I/O bottleneck is more important than the raw computation. As long as the algorithm is cacheable (and this means
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by seveibar 2y ago
Author here. This was almost worth a mention in the article. Every once in a while I'd have a friend take a look at a piece of my algorithm and they'd suggest swapping out a sort() function for a priority queue etc. (without looki
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by seveibar 2y ago
It is a really fun idea to build a boids router (shelving that for a future article!) I wrote previously about recursive pattern autorouters which are really good at having small solution spaces (and therefore, easier to get conventional ma
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by seveibar 2y ago
Software innovation in EDA seems pretty slow and is more IP-sensitive, so there hasn't been a huge proliferation of cloud services. We're trying to bring some up some standards that make EDA more web-friendly, like the Circuit JSO
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by seveibar 2y ago
Hey cushychicken! Would love to see what you’re working on and thanks for explaining (seveibar at tscircuit dot com is my email if you want to set something up!) I do think humans need to be in the loop on autorouters, but I also think auto
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by seveibar 2y ago
We are looking hard at the IPC interface or doing a plugin, but we will also support “uploading” kicad_sch/kicad_pcb to a browser (local-first, so not actually uploading)
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by seveibar 2y ago
I’m a Typescript dev but this book is one of my favorite architecture books, I reference it all the time. My favorite pattern is the fake unit of work/service patterns for testing, I use this religiously in all my projects for faking (
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by seveibar 2y ago
The same way claude never outputs code that has a syntax error, the image transformers will output DRC compliant “images”! I think spatial partitioning can help solve issues with minor DRC violations as well- it should be easier to correct
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by seveibar 2y ago
Author here. Lots of great points being made. I want to throw in a crazy prediction. I think routing is basically an image transformer problem without a good dataset right now. If the eye of the giant AI companies turned to autorouting and
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by seveibar 2y ago
We will absolutely be supporting KiCad! Placement is something we have big plans for but I think it’s important to have a really fast, cache-friendly autorouter as a foundation (if you are cache friendly, moving components and trying differ
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by seveibar 2y ago
Haha I feel like the right reaction to "vibe-*" is to cringe. I cringe a little bit every time I see someone promoting a vibe-coded app at the moment, but I think back to how I got started in coding (I was constantly annoying peop
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by seveibar 2y ago
Algorithms are a lot more fun now that LLMs have all the geometric heuristics memorized. I think a lot of algorithms are just inescapable in game development, so if you're itching to make an algorithm making something like like a tower
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Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter(blog.autorouting.com)
396 points by seveibar 2y ago|116 comments

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