u/alvaro_palmer

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What brand of glasses do you recommend?

I live in Europe and I'm looking for some inexpensive glasses, but above all, I want them to have a good-quality frame. I don't care much about the lenses, since I need prescription glasses and would replace them anyway. I'm looking for something like this: elongated glasses with thin temples and, mainly, a somewhat rectangular shape.

u/alvaro_palmer — 4 days ago

I built a procedural generator for organic 3D printed vases

Over the last few weeks, I have been developing a procedural generator for organic 3D printed vases.

The goal was not simply to create a few individual models, but to build a system capable of producing many variations while keeping each design visually consistent, printable, and structurally stable.

The generator currently includes three design families:

Dream

A softer and more expressive design based on organic asymmetry and flowing silhouettes.

Canyon

A tall, narrow vase with two offset body masses and a strongly curved S-shaped neck. A large part of the development focused on keeping the neck expressive while making every directional transition smooth and avoiding visible bands or abrupt changes.

Surco

The most experimental design. Its central cross-section is generated from a closed XY polyline containing deep folds, returns, and shapes that appear to wrap around one another. This section is then smoothly propagated upward toward the mouth and downward toward the base.

Surco required a major rewrite because a conventional radial vase representation could not preserve these overlapping-looking folds. The new system works directly with the complete polyline instead of reducing the shape to a single radius for each angle.

The generator automatically creates:

  • A printable STL
  • The final G-code
  • A rendered preview
  • Technical metadata and validation results
  • Reproducible variations using seeds

I would love to hear which design you find most interesting and what you would change or explore next.

u/alvaro_palmer — 8 days ago