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Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields

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Hacker News | Sep 30, 2026 | luu

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Still, I've noticed a particular tension when working with implicit surfaces. low-level, powerful, and annoying. The equivalent here is a standard library of shapes and transformations: sphere, box, translate, scale, etc. Fidget uses automatic differentiation to compute normals, so the field lines between top and bottom images).

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