Blake Courter

On the Geometric Processing Worldwide Discord server, a frequent participant was lamenting the challenge of absorbing all the great work going on in computational geometry. It caused me to consider my own challenges with learning math.

For a long time I wanted to know math. I thought that I could learn what was out there but by glossing over the text and seeing the ideas, maintaining some sort of mental index to the math I might someday need to use. I would assume that the author’s introductory instructions to do the exercises didn’t apply to me. I usually only made it a few chapters into such texts.

My daughter, “X”, who just turned five, has been enjoying adding and subtracting small whole numbers in her head. She is just starting to write, so we made a little table for her to practice. Here she is adding:

Hello and welcome. Sometime around 2020, my old Amazon instance with Wordpress finally bit the dust. Here we are, trying again, with modern technology. Eventually, we’ll get some of the old content rehosted here.

Mark Burhop requested definitions of hipster geometry terms.

Okay, let's build off of the implicit chamfer thread to demonstrate how you can quickly produce any edge treatment you can dream of using implicit geometry.

In @ntopology, we'll deliver the holy grail of edge treatments: the C∞ blend.

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— Blake Courter (@bcourter) June 25, 2022

Following up from yesterday here's how to make a constant-width chamfer using implicit modeling. Images are from @nTopology.

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— Blake Courter (@bcourter) June 23, 2022

A folding chef knife to prepare for a camping trip. Designed in SpaceClaim.

To-date, no one has provided a pure implicit approach to loft bewteen oriented curves. Prepare to be amazed.