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Re: Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics

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Hughes Hoppe has done a variety of research that depends on finding interesting parameterizations of meshes. His papers aren't exactly lightweight on the math, but you may find some ideas there: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/vfd... http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/lap...

Great! Hughes Hoppe's work is amazing!

Hugues Hoppe, unless he has changed his name.

Re: Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics

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I just want to say that I'm a huge fan of your open source projects. Thanks for sharing them!

Same here - Nice job. Craft (Minecraft in C / opengl) is a really cool project. I didn't realize it was the same person until I went back through the github repo just now.

Re: Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics

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`ln` is a utility commonly used for making links. Searching for this project in the future is going to be a pest.

One could argue that as a name, `go` is not optimal either, yet it seems the community has worked around it pretty well.

Re: Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics

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I thought I remembered seeing your graphics work before in go posted on HN. Yep: https://github.com/fogleman/pt Is this an evolution of that work, at least in terms of the learning process?

This is amazing. I spent some time staring at he gopher picture in disbelieve. 'Mindblowing' would be the fitting description.

Then I scrolled down to the samples...

Re: Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics

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Whenever I see install instructions like this: OS X brew install cairo pkg-config go get github.com/ungerik/go-cairo Ubuntu sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev pkg-config go get github.com/ungerik/go-cairo ... I always think there should be a "default" instruction page linked to somewhere that explains what brew and apt-get are (and other things). I mean, I know you can't be expected to go to the lengths of explaining…

Wholeheartedly agreed. When I was learning about OSS, I had no idea what a "pull request" was but people kept mentioning it. A standard guide on how OSS works with Github, Linux, and related tools would be immensely helpful in welcoming new developers into the OSS world.

The google answer for "what is a pull request" is quite good.

Re: Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics

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Whenever I see install instructions like this: OS X brew install cairo pkg-config go get github.com/ungerik/go-cairo Ubuntu sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev pkg-config go get github.com/ungerik/go-cairo ... I always think there should be a "default" instruction page linked to somewhere that explains what brew and apt-get are (and other things). I mean, I know you can't be expected to go to the lengths of explaining…

I completely agree. If you were linked to a github page out of the blue or for the first time its incredibly intimidating. Most notably is the first text you read on the page isn't a title, but a list of folders/files. Why not put the dam title and description at the top?

One line of, "Hows this work?" would help a lot of people. I took the git lesson from code academy and have messed around in ubuntu but am still very intimidated by github and the brutal installation instructions every project has (or doesn't have).

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