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I’ve been working on a project called Paramancer: think Claude Code, but for iterative 3D modeling.

Instead of opening Blender, Fusion, or OnShape and building a bracket or pegboard mount from scratch, the idea is to describe what you want in plain language and have an LLM generate a parametric 3D model you can iterate on.

You can then refine the design conversationally: adjust dimensions, add mounting holes, tweak tolerances, and regenerate until it’s right.

I’ve had some early success producing useful and interesting models, but the real challenge is scale. To get there, I’m building a feedback loop and dataset that captures how people describe parts, how models fail, and how they get corrected—so the system can steadily improve.

So far I’ve run ~100 different iterations by hand and built internal tooling to help refine and fine-tune the model, but I’d love to take this further with real users and real use cases.

I’m very early, but excited about where this could go. Would love feedback, criticism, and ideas from folks who design parts, print them, or just hate CAD UIs as much as I do.

cdr6934on How to Synthesize a House Loop

My guess is we are either at the top or rising to the top of cyclical curve of the trend.

cdr6934on How to Synthesize a House Loop

The ease of quantization in the DAW is pretty easy to do as well. So I am not sure that would be unique to music / live coding sessions.

cdr6934on Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?

Currently working toward this at 38, but my goal is to start building a team of individuals to create a research / design firm that studies symbiotic relationships in nature in order to discover and pair natural additive processes (think spider producing webs as one of these additive process) starting with bespoke pieces such as a spider woven glove.

This would help create buzz and intrigue with the objective to attract top talent and essentially the seed money to self funded a hybrid medusa that is studying "organic 3D printers" with the objective of being the "Manhattan project" size of integrating nature into the manufacturing process.

cdr6934on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

The speed at which this is happening could be a masterful execution of getting out of under the non-profit status.

cdr6934on Ask HN: Resources to learn generative art programming?

https://generative.substack.com/

cdr6934on Faked Crystallography

I wonder if those structures were compared to what AlphaGo output and found significant differences.

cdr6934on Generating Surprise, Algoart with Flutter and Natural Processes

A collection of links, tutorials and philosophical thoughts on generative art

cdr6934on How I Used Excel to Create Abstract Album Artwork

I found this to be fascinating and thought I'd share it with the rest of you. I hope you enjoy it!

cdr6934on Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

Here are my favorites for the decade:

Never Split the Difference - https://amzn.to/2sAfLGj

Bad Blood - https://amzn.to/2F4IW71

The Alchemist - https://amzn.to/356NRyV

The Hard Thing About Hard Things - https://amzn.to/39mLs6t