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The launch graphic says "Ported end-to-end by Fable, an AI agent" and it definitely feels that way. Buggy, glitchy, needs some love and human eyes before it's really usable.

You can - there's an 'Extend' button for LiDAR captures, but it can be a little touch-and-go sometimes. Definitely an area for us to work on more!

Yep! For meshes we've got GLTF, OBJ, FBX, STL, and DAE. And then you can also export the 2D floorplan as SVG and DXF.

I work on an app called Polycam, and we have an automated Room / floorplan capture mode. We actually announced some updates to it earlier this week: https://twitter.com/Polycam3D/s…

politely but firmly (with all my soul) disagree.

I should disclaim that I work on a 3D capture app called Polycam, but in that work I've grown used to the idea that 3D captures are inherently better at conveying some kinds of vis…

Even though current VR/AR interfaces are completely useless for Excel or other data-management tasks (no keyboard support, unreliable controls, lack of development interest), I thi…

Can't disagree with a rant if you can't read it.

I feel like that has to do with the Twitch/streamer culture too, where lots of people have big, visible mikes.

Maya and Max contribute less than 8% of Autodesk's total revenue[1]. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/416285/revenue-of-autode...

I was recently laid off from a startup where I think we were writing some pretty awesome code. I think many other people have felt similar things recently when, because of a layoff…

This is a really excellent comment.

check out display.land

I totally respect your opinion, but I think I fundamentally disagree with the idea that learning = pain. Project-driven learning seems more effective when the project is something …

You might like Golan Levin's lectures on different forms of Experimental Capture. They are just collections of really good examples and previous work. He specifically has one about…

Hmm. I'd say the canary is in the Wal-Mart.

> We now live in a society where it is acceptable for private companies to essentially completely ban individuals from exercising their free speech on the internet. This is phrased…

Wow, this is excellent! Processing was definitely my introduction to graphics programming, and I think it's still the most effective tool in teaching certain programming concepts. …

very awesome! for further inspiration, you might like the work of Craig Dorety: http://craigdorety.com/objects.html Once upon a time I made a project with a similar aesthetic, but …

I don't see openFrameworks mentioned here: http://openframeworks.cc/ Probably the most comprehensive open-source creative coding framework. Maybe most helpful for familiarity with …

This reminds me a lot of a chapter in Jesse Schell's awesome book, The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses.[1][2] He recommends occasionally thinking about a game as a toy. "The L…

One interesting thing I took away from the article - most of the scientific evidence cited by Professor Sapolsky is built on fMRI analysis of reactions to faces. Given that most of…

the prevalence of surgical masks in China might also be a challenge

Yeah, I spent a few minutes going over the last sentence in tengbretson's comment. I would actually recharacterize Piketty's (and the author of this chart) argument as: "X increasi…