Blake Courter

No longer active on twitter. Please find me on LinkedIn:

[nTop @nTopology]

Requirements come down. Systems engineers break them into subsystems. Inlet design goes to performance, performance goes to mechanical, and mechanical comes back and says it doesn't fit.

The team starts over.

@specteraero showed at nTop Summit how they rebuilt that loop entirely. One engineer running an automated toolchain, designing and optimizing hypersonic simultaneously rather than sequentially.

What used to take programs years is now sub one month on engine revs.
Full session recording below. 👇

Rapid Hypersonic Vehicle Design with nTop
https://t.co/T8Ypibw5Jn

[Jake Fitzgerald @earthtojake]

weekend hack: implicit.js

an open source library that lets agents generate CAD with code + mathematical functions representing surfaces

no CAD kernels, no STEP files

just agents using math + code to directly generate 3D models

details below!

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

On a whim, we added the concept of time to OmegaAI to see what the LLMs would do. Here's what happened: https://t.co/tz0M2hhJGK. @keegan_mcnamara

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

https://t.co/0QtKUfZrHE

[em m0shouris @emm0sh]

Tomorrow @peteoxenham and I chat with Blake Courter (@bcourter) of @nTopology about Implicits.

CAD continues to be one of my favorite topics (sorry Pete). We’ll talk about CAD kernels, what Implicits are, and CAD in general.

https://t.co/EJY8av93Cp

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

Am going to drop off of @Twitter for a while. Please find me on @LinkedIn.

https://t.co/OtQ4Sb8Zzb

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

Another post on unit gradient fields (UGFs) a generalization of modeling with signed distance fields (SDFs). These techniques enable the most powerful use of implicit modeling in engineering applications like @nTopology.

https://t.co/ah4yiz5NDt

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

New post as part of a new series on Unit Gradient Fields (UGFs): https://t.co/YWUrVEkdSI

UGFs are more versatile than distance fields when applying implicit modeling to engineering applications. The new #nTop logo hints at them. Expect more as we ramp up to #cdfam23.

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

Great write-up from @pilz on implicit interoperability in @nTopology ! https://t.co/V4szkKKrHO

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

Time to build a new CAD system. NURBS as smooth as your lips.

https://t.co/yRD2XGfKbw

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

Has anyone else had the feeling lately, perhaps when typing, that you are playing the role of GPT?

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

@delhanty Will give it a try next time I have something serious to promote and let you know!

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

A few folks wondered if there was any “there” there in the post on hyperbolic tessellations. Will expand the topic if there’s more interest. More here:

https://t.co/HES9phYMuc

@delhanty

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

@delhanty Wow. That got taken down faster than a Reddit post! https://t.co/M6qgQFGtXK

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

Great to see so much interest in what we're doing at QE3D! Here's a tutorial and case study on the use of multiscale, hyperbolic lattices to improve product fitness, functionality, and fidelity.
https://t.co/Uw0St77xdu
Tips on Euclidean/Hyperbolic CAD interoperability included!

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

@delhanty Googling what a Show HN is. Think I can deduce it. Have seen that page before, but was’t sure WTF.

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

@burhop Join the team! Resistance is futile. https://t.co/hvJT52NfeT!

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

More thoughts about the potential opportunities and challenges in quantum-entangled 3D printing on my blog! https://t.co/P3s0g8MjiV

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

Down with quantum entanglement? Ever want to work with non-Euclidean, higher-dimensional, or fractal geometry in your day job? We have lots of open positions at https://t.co/ZwHDSWXVAC, just out of stealth mode!

[Blake Courter @bcourter]

New blog post, but probably not a new idea: The difference between knowing and experiencing math.

https://t.co/dvIP3VeyUV