17:20 <joseph_> backlog playback

17:21 <joseph_> oops sorry

18:41 <pa> 👋🏼

18:42 <pa> wdyt is the best way to design a hook, in openscad? polygon side profile, then fillet, then extrude?

18:48 <J1A84> 2D offset extrude

18:48 <J1A84> or  rotate_extrude

18:50 <J1A84> depends what kind of hook you need .. if equal profile  rotate_extrude is fine (2×) .. else  you extrude the  polygon linear

18:54 <J1A84> https://pasteboard.co/iRGZIpIsuyif.png

18:56 <joseph_> teepee InPhase: I'm putting together a dev log to document my GSoC-related tasks so far. I've almost completed the Docker dev environment, if it's not 100% working by tomorrow I'll just keep using a VM for my next commits. Finally, this week a heat wave will hit my area. Hopefully we will not lose power but it's happened in past summers

18:57 <pa> J1A84: like https://i.imgur.com/kFPVixI.png

18:57 <pa> (polygon)

18:57 <pa> it lacks a bit of border

18:58 <J1A84> so linear extrude ... maybe add roof

18:58 <pa> but i agree that an option could be to extrude along the path rather than acros

18:58 <J1A84> using offset can round corners

18:59 <J1A84> https://www.printables.com/model/151259-dual-folding-wall-hook

19:07 <InPhase> joseph_: Ok! On commits, it will be most optimal to take an iterative approach and put building but incomplete PRs up marked as "in progress" as a discussion base for design decisions, prior to review stages. Past mentoring experience reveals that for the earliest work your progress will benefit from a little more thorough and shorter term feedback on smaller parts to keep it properly aligned with the

19:07 <InPhase> rest of the project's goals, standards, and content. The shorter feedback will give you less to fix up later, and is likely to tune up the rest of your work better.

19:09 <pa> would be nice if there was a way to exclude a specific region from offsetting.. Maybe clone, crop, replace ?

19:10 <InPhase> joseph_: As you do this just mark or state somehow what's in or not in, and discussion can include plans for next steps. Some things will fit well into pre-implementation discussions, but then the bulk will end up through feedback cycles probably.

19:10 <InPhase> pa: intersection() :)

19:12 <InPhase> pa: It's easy to make a module that uses intersection, difference, and a small offset on the differenced mask for overlap, to do exactly that.

19:15 <pa> like this http://paste.debian.net/1243897/

19:16 <pa> would be nice if i could punch in a list of points and a radius, and get circle-excluded areas, f.ex

19:16 <pa> or boxes

19:17 <joseph_> InPhase: got it, thanks

19:39 <Scopeuk> pa I guess the closest you could currently get would be a modifier module that instantiated its children masked using a passed polygon or shape definition (square sides for instance) and then generated a clean geometry for the masked area and the modified geometry for the unmasked area

19:48 <J1A84> or you build your polygon with arcs

20:03 <J1A84> pa https://bpa.st/A4TA

20:05 <J1A84> it shouldn't be to difficult to write something that replaces each corner of a polygon with an tangential arc

20:05 <pa> nice idea, i save it :-)

20:08 <J1A84> https://pasteboard.co/K2p1lNA0CZws.png  and there is the hook

21:31 <teepee> ahem https://github.com/Irev-Dev/Round-Anything

21:35 <InPhase> J1A84: There you go. That link ^ has the unionRound needed to make the benchy. :)

21:36 <InPhase> A demo is in the bottom figure, which sent me checking for the implementation. It's minkowsky based, but the benchy need for that is hopefully not too extreme.

21:37 <InPhase> s/minkosky/minkowski/

21:44 <J1A84> years later ... Ü