Radically accelerating engineering to shape our physical world. Founder of @leap_71 @hyperganic @iridas
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Coding is fun again. LLMs take the tedium out of the non-fun aspects of coding, so we can focus on the enjoyable aspects of architecting and re-architecting things. Code quality and productivity are going through the roof right now. What a time to build software.
All of our work relies on PicoGK — a compact, robust geometry kernel that we open-sourced under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
PicoGK is currently undergoing one of its biggest transformations since @linkayser first wrote it in 2023.
A lot is changing under the hood.
Stay tuned.
While we are at it, let’s eliminate physics, math, and any other symbolic, deterministic, representation of logic, in favor of AI-generated intuition. This is one area where Elon is wrong. Source code contains more than just the machine instructions. It carries verifiable logic that we need for deterministic systems. AI is great at helping us write better code, but it’s critical that we can inspect the result. Often with help from AI, but an entire black box is not desirable (or even reasonable at this stage). We don’t replace math with just showing a result. We keep the math. Let’s keep the code.
We were among the first ever users of a GPU. 23 years ago at the @NVIDIA Siggraph booth in San Diego.
We were one of only two companies at the booth, using the newly-introduced GPU functionality of the Quadro FX 3000 graphics card.
Nobody knew what to do with a GPU! Games were the only applications.
We used low-level NVIDIA shader assembly code to create the first real time image processing pipeline for cinema-resolution uncompressed video, and later the first real time pipeline for film-quality RAW decoding at 24 fps. We sold the tech to Adobe 8 years later.
Facebook (of all platforms!) reminded me of the picture. Time flies.
Probably one of my more concise attempts to formulate what motivated us to start @leap_71 and how #Noyron functions. 3dadept.com/why-leap-71-thin…
Still my most up-to-date article on how #Noyron works. But I guess it's time to write an encore. @leap_71
metal-am.com/articles/leap-7…
I remember reading this issue as a little boy (mostly trying to). It was given to me by my uncle Lutz Kayser, the founder of the first private space launch company, OTRAG. BYTE got me hooked on computing and software.
Lin Kayser retweeted
20 kN methalox rocket engine, 50 bar chamber pressure. Generated by Noyron without human intervention and without the use of CAD. 3D printed from copper (CuCrZr) by @aconity3d. Hot-fired 8 months ago.
First world problems
Their biggest problem isn’t the AI, the physics, or the printers but finding the right testing site. “We can design these things now much quicker than we actually can build the infrastructure to test it,” Kayser admits.
PicoGK is at version v2.2 and used by teams all over the world. It has proven extremely robust in the creation of some of the most complex geometries ever to be manufactured.
Computational engineering thrives on open source.
Three years ago we decided to open-source PicoGK (“peacock”), our foundational geometry kernel, under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. It has powered every object we’ve engineered since 2023.
More at PicoGK.org
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