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No, not like that.
My son was born 15 years ago. :P
However, for his 15th birthday I thought maybe he'd enjoy a 3D printer.
And that has got me looking into OpenSCAD again.
Looking over OpenSCAD, it reminded me that it - shall we say - bears a
*striking* resemblance to POV-Ray.
So much so, that A look at its source might be illuminating.
Now the interesting thing is that OpenSCAD is under active development, is free,
open-source, and has a number of libraries.
They've done Google Summer of Code and all that stuff.
We could likely benefit from a lot of the work that's been done on their
software, and I can see that there could be a lot of cross-over.
So I'm inviting folks to go over, check things out, and maybe borrow a few
models and render them in POV-Ray. Maybe join the forums and post renders, make
the off-hand comment about how code in OpenSCAD and POV-Ray are (clearly, with
certain differences) nearly identical. "Hey, this thing this guy rendered would
be pretty neat to 3D print..." "Hey, that 3D print came out ok, but I'll bet it
would an even more amazing render..."
Talent, expertise, enthusiasm, a vibrant community of coders that are already
familiar with something that's almost exactly like SDL...
I mean, I'm hoping that this doesn't even need selling.
- BE
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On 19/01/2026 01:11, Bald Eagle wrote:
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> No, not like that.
> My son was born 15 years ago. :P
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> However, for his 15th birthday I thought maybe he'd enjoy a 3D printer.
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> And that has got me looking into OpenSCAD again.
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My congratulations to you and him !
Solid modelling always attracted me and I was working with
Autodesk Inventor and SolidWorks, preferring the first as less buggy ).
What printer model do you have and what slicer are you using ?
I am happy with my CREALITY3D ENDER-3 Pro and Simplify3D for slicing.
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yesbird wrote:
> What printer model do you have and what slicer are you using ?
Bambu Labs P1S with the AMS unit.
Just using the Bambu Studio slicer until I get accustomed to everything.
> I am happy with my CREALITY3D ENDER-3 Pro and Simplify3D for slicing.
Excellent. It's always really just about what works.
I helped build a 3D printer from scratch, and reverse-engineered some Stratasys
stuff. There's always new materials, new techniques, and new tricks to push the
envelope with regard to what is possible.
Perhaps we should have a 3D printing sub-group....
- BE
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On 19/01/2026 04:53, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Bambu Labs P1S with the AMS unit.
> Just using the Bambu Studio slicer until I get accustomed to everything.
Excellent choice, I head that Bambu's printers are stable in work and
produces high-quality models.
> Perhaps we should have a 3D printing sub-group....
I like this idea, although it's not POV-related. Looking forward
for shots of your printed models. :)
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On 19/01/2026 05:42, yesbird wrote:
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> I like this idea, although it's not POV-related. Looking forward
> for shots of your printed models. :)
I am going to print surfaces from this resource:
http://3d-meier.de/tut3/Seite0.html
using my MathView:
https://mathview.yesbird.online
like here, for example:
https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201208/rtx120801076p.pdf
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