Ask HN: Need to generate 3D models of simple shapes for training

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I need to generate thousands of instantiations of simple 3D model shapes like a cone or cylinder. What can I use to automate this?

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[1] Openscad would be the first thing that comes to mind for this. Some random parameters or an evolutionary algorithm could produce some viable results.

1 http://www.openscad.org/

Math?

Like, you gotta give some more deets than that, language and so forth.

Sorry. I need to generated images of 3d models but need to control the look parameters. http://exchangedownloads.smarttech.com/public/content/38/382...

Processing has some basic stuff: https://processing.org/reference/ .

You might also want to look into POVRay (http://www.povray.org/). It can be automated pretty easily.

I'm guessing you are autogenerating something to train a camera on?

Yes.

Language doesnt matter. The less lines of code the better.

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