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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

634 points david927 | 2 comments | 24 Aug 24 22:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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idrios ◴[25 Aug 24 17:04 UTC] No.41348991[source]▶
I've been learning how to use Blender. For a long time I've thought that working with things in 3D could be made simpler by having an app where your phone is a sort of 3D cursor, and e.g. for modeling you could use your phone as a sculpting knife by moving it around in the air.

So I spent some time trying to make an app that allows you to do that, but can't shake the thought that such an app would work better as a Blender addon/plugin rather a standalone app. And I also am trying to figure out how people work with 3D currently, to see if such a tool would even be an improvement over existing tools.

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1. seism ◴[26 Aug 24 21:41 UTC] No.41362509[source]▶
Zach Lieberman, one of my favourite artists ever, once did something like this with Ink space: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ink-space
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2. idrios ◴[27 Aug 24 01:34 UTC] No.41363865[source]▶
That was cool! Yeah this is exactly the kind of thing I'm working on too. I don't have it that you can draw like he does, but it does let you view an object in a similar way & it can stream data to a server connected over wifi so that you can see mirrored behavior on a desktop app. But it's missing so much still, you can't interact with anything yet.