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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

On a whim, I added the concept of time to OmegaAI to see what the LLMs would do. Here's what happened: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Zi...

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

LOOP and VEER: the Dawn of Surface Field Modelers The GCL team just helped commercialize some DDG, including tools from GeometryCentral and libIGL. Here’s the story and how they work: www.blakecourter.com/2026/03/03/l... Also, a geodesic two body field demo!

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LOOP and VEER: the Dawn of Surface Field Modelers - Blake Courter

Executive Summary We compare and contrast two groundbreaking advanced manufacturing startups, Rapid Liquid Print and Variant3D, including the application, m...

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

New blog post: Geometry as Code, with an introduction to Omega, our emerging modeling stack: www.blakecourter.com/2026/02/07/g...

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

When was the last time you listened to Public Image Ltd.'s "Album" all the way through?

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Heavy cream is lighter than light cream. Goodmorning!

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

@marketplace.org Heard you mention the job market yesterday and thought I’d share this emerging phenomenon from the perspective of the tech industry. The job market appears to be log jammed by AI both flooding employers with applications and AI processing such applications.

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Something everybody should be aware of: planetary roller screws. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_...

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Roller screw - Wikipedia

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

As Gradient Control Laboratories has started to consider how to increase our impact, we’ve joined the Speculative Technologies “Brains” accelerator program for feedback on our broader ambitions. Am thrilled to be with such an inspiring peer group and mentor team. blog.spec.tech/p/meet-the-2...

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Meet the 2025 Brains Fellows

We’re excited to introduce the 2025 class of Brains Fellows!

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Looking forward to trying out Adam CAD. Thanks @arnicas.bsky.social !

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Agentic Engineering: how AI automata will participate in engineering in 2025 Predictions for engineering software this year and some of the fun to be had wiring it up. To what extent will engineering services left-shift into engineering software? www.blakecourter.com/2025/01/20/a...

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Agentic Engineering: how AI automata will participate in engineering in 2025 - Blake Courter

At Gradient Control Laboratories (GCL), we have the privilege of seeing patterns emerging among the most innovative engineering software startups. Last year,...

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

There’s a new reference implicit kernel in town. The GCL modeling stack was based on libfive, and we’re already in the process of adding Fidget! Congrats @mattkeeter.com

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Dan Piker @danpiker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A triply orthogonal system of surfaces from stereographic projection of Hopf coordinates

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

📝 Am getting started on a paper after some off research, and now have a large directory of poorly named PDFs and a giant bibtex file. Would anyone recommend Zotero or a similar reference manager to get a bit more organized? (I'm an academic late bloomer.) Ideally, it would work out of Google Drive.

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Let's take a look at another application where UGFs are the appropriate setting: chamfers, in particular the constant-width flavor. (UGFs are a generalization of SDFs considering fields with unit gradient magnitude. www.blakecourter.com/2023/05/18/f...) Images are from #nTop . (1/n)

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Have some old twitter threads that I embed on my blog, and would prefer them hosted here. Let's see how porting one over goes...

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Towaki Takikawa @yongyuanxi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I made a computer graphics research starter pack- I most definitely missed lots of people so let me know 😄 go.bsky.app/ckQ1u9

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

@rms80.bsky.social Great to see you here. Continue to use GradientSpace libraries (including Geometry4Sharp) regularly. Apologies for any name collision in minting Gradient Control Laboratories, something we didn't originally realize. We are just very focused on various gradients of implicits! 😀

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Let's take a look at one of the most useful tricks in applied implicit modeling, a trick I like to call the "two body field". For two SDFs or UGFs A and B, let's define the two body field Ξ = (A - B) / (A + B) . It creates a field that linearly interpolates from -1 at A to +1 at B. (1/n)

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Let me know if you are interested in a CAD system that works like this!

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Valentin Deschaintre @vdeschaintre.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

SIGGRAPH Asia (still) coming up! Second paper thread! "Direct Manipulation of Procedural Implicit Surfaces" where we explore how to create a WYSIWYG editing interface for procedural representations, avoiding awkward sliders! eliemichel.github.io/SdfManipulat...

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Greetings everyone! Here's a quick intro to my main project: I study Unit Gradient Fields (UGFs), which are a generalization of Signed Distance Fields (SDFs). Common operations on SDFs like offset and booleans fail to result in SDFs. These operations, with care, do result in UGFs! (1/n)

Example of a unit gradient field: the centerlines of a hexagonal FDM toolpath with multiscale size variation while maintaining constant weld thickness.

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Blake Courter @bcourter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Automatic Medial Axis Computation from SDFs! Here's a fun attempt a first bsky thread. The medial axis is a structure of equidistance points inside a shape. We can compute it along with SDF Booleans, in a similar spirit to automatic differentiation with dual numbers or error propagation. (1/n)

Medial axis of two intersecting rectangle-like shapes.

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