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Re: Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D

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Post by ThePhysicist »

I once designed a 3D "code city" representation of a codebase, which looks a bit similar:

http://quantifiedcode.github.io/code-is-beautiful/code-city/

There are companies that offer such visualization commercially, e.g. Sereene. They might not be very useful but management goes crazy about them I heard :D

Re: Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D

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Post by ReverseCold »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #23
martinwoodward wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are using Shapeways.com to turn them into metal for us and it was the option they had. Haven't tried getting it CNC'd but thinking we might need to change the model up a bit to allow the tool to get into some of the gaps that are possible. If anyone wants to try with a CNC machine then love to know what the results are like

Why is it so hard to find companies that you give an STL file, choose material, tweak some settings, pay and give address? First thing I see on shapeways is get a quote, which means I have to go into a sales funnel by signing up and waste time instead of actually printing a 3d model.

because 3D printing arbitrary geometry, especially with arbitrary materials is Really Hard

a human has to look at how it's printed- two very similar shapes might take vastly different times to print and require different amounts of support material, etc.

Re: Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D

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Post by SamBam »

jakear wrote: post #18
SamBam wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Randomly wondering why they went for 3d steel printing for something that looks like it can be carved much more easily by a very simple 2-axis CNC, since it has no overhangs or anything.

I believe that would not be able to get clean inner corners, though I could be wrong.

That's a good point, I wasn't thinking of that.

Re: Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D

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Post by nkozyra »

Xophmeister wrote: post #8
alexellisuk wrote: post #2

Here's a 3D-printed steel version of mine, that I was sent by GitHub - https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1362363460688961536?s... And the flat version - https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1362369733052551168?s...

Are we all gonna get one of these in the post, or did you pass some kind of threshold? :)

I suspect he got one because he wrote the software :)

Re: Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D

#40

Post by karan85 »

ThePhysicist wrote: post #32

I once designed a 3D "code city" representation of a codebase, which looks a bit similar: http://quantifiedcode.github.io/code-is-beautiful/code-city/ There are companies that offer such visualization commercially, e.g. Sereene. They might not be very useful but management goes crazy about them I heard :D

It's spelled Seerene (https://www.seerene.com/) :) I did the initial port of the 'SoftwareMap' from C++/OpenGL to WebGL.
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