i'm a huge fan of karsten schmidt's work

totally agree about the tangle scripts being a massive pain though

Wow, the http://thi.ng stuff does look awesome; I'd never encountered it before. How's performance?

eg, are images like this being produced from data in realtime?

@eggsyntax: I'm still getting a handle on all the bits and pieces in the http://thi.ng library so I have no idea how performance is. Plus I'm approaching it from the point of view of creating 3D printable objects and doing lots of mesh manipulation output to X3D files, instead of CSG operations using OpenSCAD, which is what I had been doing.

God, that sounds fun

While I dislike the org mode and don't use emacs, I do like that it makes good use of protocols. Obviously a lot of thought has gone into the library.

@eggsyntax: More fun with polyhedra than ought to be allowed. 😉

My plan is to add my own library of mesh operators that I can then combine with my ergo library of L-Systems and cellular automata. So in a way what I'm doing is visualizing data generated by algorithms.

Nice

I had a ton of fun at one point doing 3D-printed objects built from a custom-written 3D version of Conway's Life, but it was def a one-off.

There are already a ton of people doing really cool generative art in 2d, so I figured I'd skip that and go to 3D, and make it printable as well.

http://novonon.com/objects.jpg

@meow: I'd love to check out some of the stuff you're doing.

My "ergo" library of generative systems is here: https://github.com/decomplect/ion/blob/master/src/ion/ergo/core.cljc

LOL at your repo breakdown

Gotta have fun, right?

I have a customized fork of OpenSCAD for Clojure here: https://github.com/pkobrien/scad-clj

All my CAD work is here: https://github.com/pkobrien/cad

I'm moving away from OpenSCAD and focusing on mesh manipulation via http://thi.ng and whatever I add to it.

For example, I just added support for X3D output.

Very cool.

Is this a side project, or have you managed to rock a day job doing this?

I'm taking some time off to focus on things that I've always wanted to do but never had the time.

@eggsyntax: What kind of printer did you use to do your GOL prints?

Nice

Damned if I know -- they were printed out at a university in, um, Raleigh, I think, via a contact there. I was doing it on an academic grant, so I got them for free, which was extra-nice since it was almost ten years ago & commercial prints were hella pricey still.