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pleasetrythisathome 2015-11-24T04:16:00.000052Z

i'm a huge fan of karsten schmidt's work

pleasetrythisathome 2015-11-24T04:16:09.000053Z

totally agree about the tangle scripts being a massive pain though

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T13:57:34.000054Z

Wow, the http://thi.ng stuff does look awesome; I'd never encountered it before. How's performance?

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T14:28:55.000055Z

eg, are images like this being produced from data in realtime?

meow 2015-11-24T15:30:19.000057Z

@eggsyntax: I'm still getting a handle on all the bits and pieces in the http://thi.ng library so I have no idea how performance is. Plus I'm approaching it from the point of view of creating 3D printable objects and doing lots of mesh manipulation output to X3D files, instead of CSG operations using OpenSCAD, which is what I had been doing.

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T15:31:29.000058Z

God, that sounds fun :simple_smile:

meow 2015-11-24T15:32:06.000060Z

While I dislike the org mode and don't use emacs, I do like that it makes good use of protocols. Obviously a lot of thought has gone into the library.

meow 2015-11-24T15:33:20.000061Z

@eggsyntax: More fun with polyhedra than ought to be allowed. 😉

meow 2015-11-24T15:35:33.000062Z

My plan is to add my own library of mesh operators that I can then combine with my ergo library of L-Systems and cellular automata. So in a way what I'm doing is visualizing data generated by algorithms. :simple_smile:

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T15:35:43.000063Z

Nice :simple_smile:

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T15:36:33.000064Z

I had a ton of fun at one point doing 3D-printed objects built from a custom-written 3D version of Conway's Life, but it was def a one-off.

meow 2015-11-24T15:36:58.000067Z

There are already a ton of people doing really cool generative art in 2d, so I figured I'd skip that and go to 3D, and make it printable as well.

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T15:37:00.000068Z

http://novonon.com/objects.jpg

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T15:37:17.000070Z

@meow: I'd love to check out some of the stuff you're doing.

meow 2015-11-24T15:39:44.000071Z

My "ergo" library of generative systems is here: https://github.com/decomplect/ion/blob/master/src/ion/ergo/core.cljc

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T15:40:54.000073Z

LOL at your repo breakdown :simple_smile:

meow 2015-11-24T15:41:27.000074Z

Gotta have fun, right?

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T15:41:52.000075Z

:simple_smile:

meow 2015-11-24T15:41:59.000076Z

I have a customized fork of OpenSCAD for Clojure here: https://github.com/pkobrien/scad-clj

meow 2015-11-24T15:43:06.000078Z

All my CAD work is here: https://github.com/pkobrien/cad

meow 2015-11-24T15:44:17.000080Z

I'm moving away from OpenSCAD and focusing on mesh manipulation via http://thi.ng and whatever I add to it.

meow 2015-11-24T15:46:10.000081Z

For example, I just added support for X3D output.

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T15:46:27.000082Z

Very cool.

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T15:46:42.000083Z

Is this a side project, or have you managed to rock a day job doing this?

meow 2015-11-24T15:48:49.000084Z

I'm taking some time off to focus on things that I've always wanted to do but never had the time.

meow 2015-11-24T15:53:18.000085Z

@eggsyntax: What kind of printer did you use to do your GOL prints?

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T16:59:33.000088Z

Nice :simple_smile:

eggsyntax 2015-11-24T17:00:48.000089Z

Damned if I know -- they were printed out at a university in, um, Raleigh, I think, via a contact there. I was doing it on an academic grant, so I got them for free, which was extra-nice since it was almost ten years ago & commercial prints were hella pricey still.