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Halfspace models solids with distance fields and exports meshes

mattkeeter.com 7 min read Editor score 7/10

Halfspace is an experimental IDE built around the Fidget kernel, rendering models in near real time and exporting images or triangle meshes. Its combination of distance-field modeling, rasterization and meshing makes it useful to engineers exploring geometry tools and kernels.

What

Halfspace is an experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields, built as a showcase for the Fidget kernel.

How

Fidget handles rasterization and meshing; the GUI rasterizes images in near real time and exports models as images or triangle meshes.

Why it matters

Incremental, parameterized pieces make complex implicit-surface models easier to build and inspect.

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