from the future

Plasticity

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@emm0sh woah dude i want that

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@jarredsumner I really would like to express a contiguous struct type that is never heap allocated, passed by value, etc. It would be perfect for things like vec3

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@aurimasgasiulis I would love to watch a YouTube video explaining the difference between these splines, both mathematically and in terms of shape design

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@jarredsumner I wonder if anyone can build an independent business anymore making this kind of software? I suppose it was always going to be challenging to monetize these things which were both difficult and open-source. It seems good that you sold to anthropic when you did, right?

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@matteocollina I was also rejected by Anthropic. But OpenAI did approve me for Daybreak blue.

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https://t.co/6jIyrS6IDP

Some of my favorite features in Plasticity v26.2

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@getPlasticity Release notes: https://t.co/8kXBLR9sDv

[Plasticity @getPlasticity]

Plasticity 2026.2 is here.

Assemble models with reusable assets, maintain smooth connections with live constraints, and shape complex geometry with direct PolySpline control point editing.

Explore Project Align, proportional Slide, new curvature analysis and diagnostic tools, and much more.

Explore Plasticity at https://t.co/x30u1lWIlc

A special thank you to Max Marharit (@MaxMarharit ) for his art contributions!

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I think I’m struggling a bit with people with big followings posting about smlib that “it’s over” when they have not even tested it or glanced at the source and so don’t know what it’s good and bad at. There is a clear line between “enthusiastic about new technology” and “being full of shit” and many people on twitter are the latter.

I don’t know the right kind of way to talk about our new world order but I do believe this: producing the tweets, the code, etc, with a complete lack of understanding about what you’re talking about, and no idea what you’re actually building, and with no effort at originality - it’s undignified. It’s idiotic.

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I don’t understand how it got so out of hand. I watched out my window as these teenage idiots ransacked one store after another, making huge bonfires out of vélibs and dotts. The firemen responded quickly, within 15 minutes, but it was many hours, at least 8pm before any police arrived to intervene. Is this police incompetence or were the rioters so overwhelming in number ?

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Idk man. I live in the 10th on blvd de magenta. Before it turned violent, the protest already seemed huge, with large crowds as far as the 9th and grands boulevards; a massive crowd at république of course. Lots of sickle and hammer flags at république and general anti-capitalist slogans everywhere (“caca pipi talism” is a sign I saw several times); grandma antifa stuff everywhere, singing Bella ciao and holding anti-rn signs. Late afternoon, the rioters, who destroyed every small business on my street, were all boys who looked like teenagers to me. They looted the vape shop and the sunglasses store; smashed the windows of the florist, etc.

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@helencftroy Fighting for their rights = looting every small business on boulevard magenta ?

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@istvan_csanady @bigmarvin I tend to agree that most companies don’t seem to care very much about cheaper options. The switching cost is way higher than the cost of a few seats of nx or alias. The low end of the market (some smb, but certainly 3d printing hobbyists) is more at risk.

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@snoopy_dot_jpg Not really - the coordination overhead in terms of code complexity and performance has to be weighed against the likelihood of something happening in practice. Very often with fable, it will introduce a new p1 bug while handling some p3 edge case

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@emm0sh certainly featurescript ... but i think the multipart studio + assembly context all stored in an immutable database is a powerful model, and it scales well to large assemblies, and it works well with small teams.

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@zack_overflow Fable is not better than me in every branch of software. For example: writing simple, readable, well-organized code. But yes it is better than me at a majority of coding tasks.

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@0xca0a @vitalduval @MecAgent I’ve heard that mem64 has a significant performance penalty because all memory accesses are bounds checked. I haven’t verified this myself tho.

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@0xca0a @vitalduval @MecAgent are you using wasm memory64 or the 32 bit heap?

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I recommend watching these videos. I think there is a little too much fetishizing of g2 and g3 as if they are somehow magically better. Apple's corners have a unique design language that goes well beyond being merely g2 continuous.

FWIW, smlib has a lot of strengths but it does not have a strong fillet engine; nominally supporting a feature like g2 doesn't make it good or useful or robust.

Sorry to be a hater - but if you actually care or are interested in surface quality, you may enjoy digging a bit deeper

https://t.co/pRS9GBFZyc
https://t.co/bMSgfY1rUM