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New website captcha: fold this towel
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This is how we train the robots!

Kind of half joking but captcha was used for language training, why not utilize the generation for robot training?

Black and chrome don’t really look how I would expect
Hit detection doesn't seem to be always getting the nearest surface to the camera: if there's a folded-over corner in front of the main surface, it almost always seems to move the 'main' part of the 'fabric' behind the folded corner, rather than allowing dragging just the corner in front.
Does anyone know the origin of the phrase on the cloth?
HPPD like fizzling noise is very distracting. I like it.
Looks like the collision detection is missing and the cloth just intersects itself?
Yeah, I had the same problem after I started twirling and twirling it. Got bunched up and then I just thought, well pull it back straight, till I couldn't. But really nice effects. What else were you thinking of doing with it. It is almost addictive. Make an interesting game out of it and you have something real then.
This just shows a black screen for me?
I must flatten it and smooth the wrinkles
Could the author share the code and process?
I don't know why but I just LOVE holographic effects. Looks gorgeous!
Wish this had support for multitouch. Great work otherwise!
Can you make it so the menu hides on mobile devices please?

From what I can see this is amazing!

Interesting. I'm currently building a CAD tool for inflatable structures. Think Solvespace but with extrusions replaced with face stitching and inflation. It's still a work in a progress, it's most likely useless, but it's a lot of fun.

https://files.catbox.moe/q1k6le.mov

That puff in the torus is just about right!

Unfortunately this is cloth so it's computationally demanding and I have since then lost what made this animation so satisfying (still iterating on it though!).

I managed to obtain more terrific assembly animations

https://files.catbox.moe/5d9gtt.mov

and looking at it I think I need to start recording myself producing suctions sounds in sync with the inflation process whenever I click on the 'Inflate' button. So that when I have enough data, I can train a neuralnet to produce those sounds. That would be pretty awesome.

siiiiiuuuuuuuuuuccppfifffffhhhshsshsh. Ahahaha

Tangential, for static site like this, why do people choose to host on vercel instead of github page?
One reason would be that Vercel does the build process, whereas Github pages (afaik) would require you to commit the dist dir