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<InPhase>
lf94: Does printables.com actually have a customizer?
<InPhase>
lf94: I see several uploads saying to "use the customizer", but I don't see a customizer. Are these just copy/pastes from thingiverse?
<InPhase>
I posted a lot of stuff on thingiverse, and the customizable stuff was typically the most popular by a wide margin.
<InPhase>
I've lost interest in thingiverse because the customizer is now hopelessly out of date. So I'm just waiting for some place to take this seriously again for building a 3D model community.
<lf94>
probably copy paste.
<lf94>
well there's uh, cadhub
<InPhase>
You are correct, that is a thing which exists.
<InPhase>
I jest a little in my phrasing. It's an extremely impressive thing. There's something structural about it that makes it not yet seem like a community though. It's clear the ability to edit in browser is the centerpiece of the show, rather than the sharing of models.
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<J22>
InPhase you can import or convert thingyverse to printables - but the links are relative and will now point to the wrong domaine
<J22>
with WASM there should be no need for a customizer .. just need a domaine for it
<J22>
maybe someone like to contact prusa for that feature
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<InPhase>
J22: Yeah, that looks like a straight drop-in for people like us, and is even better than customizer. Although for the masses, one thing appealing about the thingiverse customizer was that it ONLY showed the customizer parameters.
<InPhase>
J22: It might be nice to have both capabilities, with the customizer-parameters-only being the most prominently placed for the larger crowd, but in browser to keep the server loads low.
<J22>
agree but i thought i have already seen a WASM version with customizer .. but maybe i mixed that up
<InPhase>
Might be. There has been a lot of work in this area very rapidly that has been hard to track, so I'm sure it will pop up soon. :)
<J22>
from a technical point it should be easy to have a restricted GUI without code .. and expanded view
<J22>
teepee ahh .. so they just need to add printables Ü
<J22>
.oO(only works with login:( )
<J22>
i assume this is not WASM
<J22>
°∩°
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<teepee>
no, it started before WASM existed
<teepee>
I posted the suggestion about printables, but not sure it stuck in some wishlist
<J22>
maybe the future is a slicer with build in SCAD WASM, prusa slicer already can add geometry .. The next gen printer may have a full OS and you just say print a "hinge" size "x,y"
<lf94>
InPhase: with time.
<myosotiss>
GPT3 has been doing some incredible things
<dTal>
try prompting it with some OpenSCAD code and see what shape it makes
<myosotiss>
I was more thinking of prompting it with a shape and seeing if it could produce a mesh
<InPhase>
I have thought about some sort of GPT3 trained on the thingiverse dataset.
<InPhase>
I don't know if it's a big enough dataset though.
<InPhase>
Those things tend to take a very large amount of input data to see all the patterns. Otherwise you will get splotchy art that vaguely resembles code.
<myosotiss>
I think with a relatively small amount of scripting, you could produce a big enough data set to get somewhere...
<InPhase>
myosotiss: Well, you want to get human-like implementations I think, or else it's not ideal. And also you really need to match it up to the English-language descriptions in the posts.
<InPhase>
Otherwise there's no way to trigger what you want it to be.
<dTal>
My feeling is that openscad code is too diverse
<myosotiss>
you could generate quite a bit of well-labelled data with some scripting. Something like "This is a sphere", "this is 2 spheres the same size" etc...
<InPhase>
I was seeing a post the other day about how some of those generators will produce better explanations with math if you include in the prompt "I am a math tutor, and"
<InPhase>
So "I know what I'm talking about" phrased in some manner is basically a "style" it can produce. ;)
<InPhase>
"I'm a software engineer, and this is my implementation of a hinge in OpenSCAD:"
<J22>
Trust me i am an engineer ( search on YT for fun)
<InPhase>
:)
<InPhase>
J22: My wife and I, both PhDs, have taken to saying to each other, "It's okay, I'm a PhD" used with similar comedic effect.
<J22>
there is a lot of truth in it .. if you know what you are doing - and other know that you know what you are doing they are much less stressed
<myosotiss>
I do the opposite. I always tell people I have absolutely no clue what's going on or what I'm doing
<J22>
myosotiss that is a good way to test the competence of the other people
<myosotiss>
gotta set expectations right
<myosotiss>
also, I never actually know what's going on, or what I'm doing...
<InPhase>
lol. First instinctive response, "Yes but not those colors!" Then I got to the part that said, "Developing new color schemes is something I want to leave to people that have a better grasp at design and colors."
<InPhase>
Well with that capability, I might make two color schemes. I'll wait for a day I'm feeling artistic.
<InPhase>
Or maybe just the one... Then I'll wait for custom shaders so we can add a cloud background effect.
<teepee>
:)
<InPhase>
I guess these are locked oriented to the screen instead of to the axes...
<InPhase>
That will require only very subtle color gradients. Otherwise you risk breaking the illusion of rotating around the object, and the axes will rotate within a fixed colorspace background.
<InPhase>
But a slight gradient can signify distance.
<teepee>
yep, anything else is probably just annoying to look at