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		WillAdams 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Frank Gehry has died Notably one of the first people who whipped out a credit card to buy the 3D CAD/modeling program Rhinoceros 3D at v1.0 on the first day it was available for purchase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHp7C2Ccu94 which engendered the opensource node editor Grasshopper eventually expanding to a ménagerie of animal-named support applications.

atonse 1 day ago [–]

Rhino 3d was the first 3d modeling app I had ever used. I was in high school. It was so hard :-) but very cool.

Used to take an hour to render a simple teapot. I could probably render that in realtime now.

WillAdams 1 day ago | [–]

Yeah, I used to have to borrow my son's gaming computer to calculate toolpaths in pyCAM....

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