Good on you for creating something fun, but vibing something up and then trying to charge for it, when anyone else could produce the same product for less, is poor taste.
Icosahedron is the classic? I have never ever seen an icosahedron globe in my life, neither real or digital. What in the world happened in the brain or artificial neural network when that title was picked for an icosahedron “globe”?
My personal favorite is Authagraph, when folded they make a really neat looking shape. I bought one years ago at a paper store and it’s still standing.
Decades spent building tools to freely copy and fork each other’s code, only to arrive at a future where people pay tokens to do the same thing with added noise. Progress.
The icons for the different shapes don’t really make a lot of sense. It’s not really obvious how some of them work and many are quite unlike the actual pattern (which you have to scroll down to see on mobile).
Also Cahill–Keyes M, which I’ve never heard of or seen before, is described as “the classic M”. That’s not really helpful.
This is pretty great! To the creator(s) if they’re around in here: if you’ve ever dreamed of a smooth, unified transition between the product’s actual scan .svg and the 3D simulation[1], I have some old code[2] for simulating origami paper folding in three.js that could handle this elegantly. It works by drawing faces based on rotating springs at each edge, anchored at two points each and executed in a (hierarchical) procedure.
The repo’s in a messy state of primarily-artificial cleanup atm (fml tbh, btw) but it should be trivial to pull out the parts you’d need for a one-off & one-step sim like this.
Apologies if obvious lol — it’s getting harder and harder these days to judge that
[1] obviously get why you’re not loading 3D on pageload, so worth pointing out that the same might be possible here with a clever .svg<->.ts swap.
Good on you for creating something fun, but vibing something up and then trying to charge for it, when anyone else could produce the same product for less, is poor taste.
Why is it poor taste? He is not preventing anyone. Neither is he evergreening patents.
Many things that are on the market can be made and sold by someone else for less.
Icosahedron is the classic? I have never ever seen an icosahedron globe in my life, neither real or digital. What in the world happened in the brain or artificial neural network when that title was picked for an icosahedron “globe”?
I've seen them in many novelty gift or travel shops in Europe.
https://www.rimemo.com/e/wap/show.php?classid=5&id=29
Clearly the classic of polyhedral globes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
My personal favorite is Authagraph, when folded they make a really neat looking shape. I bought one years ago at a paper store and it’s still standing.
https://narukawa-lab.jp/archives/authagraph-map/
6.95 or point my LLM at the site and copy the simple idea.
Definitely not an unethical thought cause this is 100% vibe-coded. https://mapscaping.com/podcast/i-have-been-making-ai-slop-an...
Decades spent building tools to freely copy and fork each other’s code, only to arrive at a future where people pay tokens to do the same thing with added noise. Progress.
Do people still buy .. globes?
This was up a week ago
The icons for the different shapes don’t really make a lot of sense. It’s not really obvious how some of them work and many are quite unlike the actual pattern (which you have to scroll down to see on mobile).
Also Cahill–Keyes M, which I’ve never heard of or seen before, is described as “the classic M”. That’s not really helpful.
This is pretty great! To the creator(s) if they’re around in here: if you’ve ever dreamed of a smooth, unified transition between the product’s actual scan .svg and the 3D simulation[1], I have some old code[2] for simulating origami paper folding in three.js that could handle this elegantly. It works by drawing faces based on rotating springs at each edge, anchored at two points each and executed in a (hierarchical) procedure.
The repo’s in a messy state of primarily-artificial cleanup atm (fml tbh, btw) but it should be trivial to pull out the parts you’d need for a one-off & one-step sim like this.
Apologies if obvious lol — it’s getting harder and harder these days to judge that
[1] obviously get why you’re not loading 3D on pageload, so worth pointing out that the same might be possible here with a clever .svg<->.ts swap.
[2]: https://gitlab.com/doering-ai/apps/origami
Some interesting comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093845
neat idea. hate the vibecoded website. Not even changing the default colors.
Website is a bit scuffed on mobile