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Incubating engineering software startups. Applying SDFs to design and manufacturing problems by generalizing them to fields with unit gradient magnitude (UGFs). https://www.blakecourter.com/
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As Gradient Control Laboratories has started to consider how to increase our impact, we’ve joined the Speculative Technologies “Brains” accelerator program for feedback on our broader ambitions. Am thrilled to be with such an inspiring peer group and mentor team. blog.spec.tech/p/meet-the-2...

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Looking forward to trying out Adam CAD. Thanks @arnicas.bsky.social !

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Agentic Engineering: how AI automata will participate in engineering in 2025 Predictions for engineering software this year and some of the fun to be had wiring it up. To what extent will engineering services left-shift into engineering software? www.blakecourter.com/2025/01/20/a...

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There’s a new reference implicit kernel in town. The GCL modeling stack was based on libfive, and we’re already in the process of adding Fidget! Congrats @mattkeeter.com

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A triply orthogonal system of surfaces from stereographic projection of Hopf coordinates

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📝 Am getting started on a paper after some off research, and now have a large directory of poorly named PDFs and a giant bibtex file. Would anyone recommend Zotero or a similar reference manager to get a bit more organized? (I'm an academic late bloomer.) Ideally, it would work out of Google Drive.

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Let's take a look at another application where UGFs are the appropriate setting: chamfers, in particular the constant-width flavor. (UGFs are a generalization of SDFs considering fields with unit gradient magnitude. www.blakecourter.com/2023/05/18/f...) Images are from #nTop . (1/n)

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Have some old twitter threads that I embed on my blog, and would prefer them hosted here. Let's see how porting one over goes...

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I made a computer graphics research starter pack- I most definitely missed lots of people so let me know 😄 go.bsky.app/ckQ1u9

submitted 100 days ago • 12 comments

@rms80.bsky.social Great to see you here. Continue to use GradientSpace libraries (including Geometry4Sharp) regularly. Apologies for any name collision in minting Gradient Control Laboratories, something we didn't originally realize. We are just very focused on various gradients of implicits! 😀

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Let's take a look at one of the most useful tricks in applied implicit modeling, a trick I like to call the "two body field". For two SDFs or UGFs A and B, let's define the two body field Ξ = (A - B) / (A + B) . It creates a field that linearly interpolates from -1 at A to +1 at B. (1/n)

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Let me know if you are interested in a CAD system that works like this!

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SIGGRAPH Asia (still) coming up! Second paper thread! "Direct Manipulation of Procedural Implicit Surfaces" where we explore how to create a WYSIWYG editing interface for procedural representations, avoiding awkward sliders! eliemichel.github.io/SdfManipulat...

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