<DEac->
I tried bezier-curves with bosl2. works like expected. than i tried bezier-patches. the very confusing difference is, for curves, i define points, were the curve should go through, while for patches, it is not possible to define such points. it only stretches in the given direction, but never reaches.
<DEac->
so i tried to combine both. i defined a bezier-curve and used the path as input for the patch. this ends in a mess and i do not think, that this is the desired way.
<DEac->
so, I could try closepoints. I used the bezier-curve with Z=0 and Z=20 and I got a surface, but with some issues. (I am preparing a demo)
<InPhase>
DEac-: The last two sentences of the comment of the ClosePoints module explain the issue.
<InPhase>
DEac-: The module has to guess how to close the tops and bottoms up, and uses a convexity assumption that doesn't work for your point distribution. You'd need to migrate the top and bottom closure points over closer toward y=0
<InPhase>
DEac-: Manually selecting them, it works out okay for: ClosePoints([Q1,Q2], close_top_pt=[30,2,100], close_bot_pt=[30,2,0]);
<InPhase>
You might potentially want an algorithmic manner of choosing those from your parameters.
<InPhase>
DEac-: To understand what's happening, it's forming pizza-wedge like triangles from every pair of triangles in the top surface to some chosen closure point.
<InPhase>
And its best initial guess for this is the average of the points in the top and bottom surface.
<InPhase>
J24k67: Seems to be the same person who was on reddit talking about this workflow. And he seems to be having some excellent successes with it. Clearly this is a resourceful individual.
<InPhase>
J24k67: I'm extra impressed on the side that he's including photos of his work, presumably using the same workflow of feeding the photos into ChatGPT to have it describe what is in the photos as a validation of them.
<J24k67>
sometimes a difference of two objects (closepoints) can generate the tube without going through that faces/polyhedron stuff
<J24k67>
InPhase - yes that is the guy .. i mean the model is somehow floating with parts around .. but this is cool
<InPhase>
The mountain one is fascinating, because it doesn't "look" like a mountain, but it "feels" like a mountain when you look at it. It captures a different sensory perspective where certain spatial features are enhanced.
<J24k67>
And sure we may be able to -know- (guess) how something look by seeing the code, but without seeing .. i mean sure blind people also have this spatial perception but it must be so much more difficult .. like Beethoven making music after hearing loss
<InPhase>
That aspect alone makes the mountain one a valuable work of art, I think.
<InPhase>
It has sort of captured the tactile experience of being on a mountain as a structural representation in a way that works better than a real picture of a mountain, because it sort of transforms the personal scale to the larger scale.
<J24k67>
looks like a volcanic mountain
<J24k67>
But absolutely the glimpse into his qualia of perception is stunning
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<malespiaut>
Hello everyone.
<teepee>
hi
<malespiaut>
I'm new to CAD software. I've dabbled around in FreeCAD with some tutorials, and got very frustrated with the user experience. I'm looking for a software to modelize my house, in order to view it in 3D, and possibly even produce floor plans. I'm an experienced C and Python programmer, and OpenSCAD looks like a tempting solution. Is it the right
<malespiaut>
software for what I want to achieve?
<teepee>
depends on the details I suppose, it's certainly not specialized for that kind of task, but people have used it for this