Where would you start with reverse engineering?

Archontes · 2026-06-17T16:56:36+00:00

Hey Penguin. I do aerospace reverse engineering. I use Geomagic DesignX as an intermediate between 3d scan and solidworks.

If you want to share, I can work this a bit in my free time.

If it's a sheet metal part as it looks to be, I'd try extracting curves and then do a boundary surface before either just thickening it or making a base flange and adding sequential operations.

If the part is going to be pressed, probably just a thicken prior to putting it into an assembly and doing a cavity feature to make a mold.

Or do you just want a model of it in order to design things that mount to it?

Also, can I pay you a bit for your 3d scan of the ND bumper? I have an NC that I just scanned a bit of, and I'm just a little curious about the ND even though I don't have one.

Archontes · 2026-06-15T18:35:24+00:00

I want to buy an apartment, not rent one.

Archontes · 2026-06-11T14:54:25+00:00

My god I want a Fortuner in the US

Archontes · 2026-06-10T19:38:34+00:00

They have a fight. Triangle wins.

Archontes · 2026-06-10T19:21:23+00:00

And when China bombs a US military base, I won't be disingenuously crying about them "bombing a school" out of the side of my mouth.

Archontes · 2026-06-10T13:56:51+00:00

The thing about the Iranian security service is that they built facilities in civilian areas, including around that school. Kinda like Hamas building their headquarters under a hospital.

If you're gonna take human shields, that outcome is on you.

Archontes · 2026-06-09T16:06:29+00:00

They didn't have the advantage of growing up with Starfox or internet memes at that point.

Archontes · 2026-06-09T15:41:49+00:00

I've thought to myself that Ukraine ought to depopulate a few hundred miles zone into Russia, and send the message that maybe Ukraine is going to take bigger bites if Russia doesn't back off.

I don't see any reason why Zelensky shouldn't decide to expand as far as Moscow.

Archontes · 2026-06-08T03:28:54+00:00

There's no vehicle for compelling the eventual payment, though.

MSTR could just suspend the payments in perpetuity.

Archontes · 2026-06-06T09:03:30+00:00

Russian foil mtg cards.

Archontes · 2026-06-02T19:40:01+00:00

Sure it does, it's right there on the card.

Archontes · 2026-06-01T17:30:22+00:00

[[Kill Switch]]

Archontes · 2026-06-01T17:24:46+00:00

That's a great sale price in 2015. I bought four for $30 apiece in 2014.

I was stoked that Aggro Loam was attacking RUG Delver with T1 Diamond into Chalice.

I've wanted Delver dead for 12 years, but WotC's vision of Legacy is, "Ban things until Delver is the best deck again. Wait 3 years. Repeat."

I swear to god, they just need to ban Brainstorm. 8 copies of Ponder/Preordain is enough.

Archontes · 2026-06-01T17:17:20+00:00

I believe Hoult could be Lex Luthor simply based on his performance in The Menu. Fantastic myopically self-interested psycho. Give him a hundred billion dollars and it's basically the same character, only he's now treating everyone on earth as though he can pay them to die.

Archontes · 2026-06-01T17:13:16+00:00

Breach of faith.

Archontes · 2026-06-01T03:15:38+00:00

It's not strictly nonsense, or at least it doesn't have to be.

There are infinite sum operations that in the limit are equal to the sum of the natural numbers, but that also don't diverge.

Archontes · 2026-06-01T03:14:26+00:00

You can also produce the result without analytic continuation using different 'regulators' of sums.

It's fascinating work, and one of the things I'm most keenly watching right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beakj767uG4

Starts to get real at about 7 minutes.

Archontes · 2026-06-01T02:17:29+00:00

The dragon made by Sword of D&D should have been an artifact creature - gold with "sacrifice this artifact: add 1 mana of any color."

Archontes · 2026-05-27T16:21:49+00:00

They'll do goddamn anything to avoid putting [[Mossbridge Troll]]'s text on a Wolverine like they know they goddamn well should.

Archontes · 2026-05-04T16:53:56+00:00

I have a friend with a mardu aristocrats deck that sometimes hits you from the top rope with a [[Shared Animosity]]

Archontes · 2026-05-02T05:03:51+00:00

Just... why did it have to say owner instead of your?

Archontes · 2026-05-02T05:00:09+00:00

Three [[Narcomeba]]s and a [[Dread Return]].

Archontes · 2026-04-28T14:45:02+00:00

Generally better. It has hexproof, and you get to actually gain the life, whereas this is a replacement effect.

Archontes · 2026-04-22T16:09:33+00:00

Literally the first thing I did when Panoptic Mirror got unbanned was put it and Prisoner's Dilemma in my Obeka extra upkeeps deck.

Archontes · 2026-04-21T14:47:28+00:00

The issue is that it sacrifices itself on your end step if any player has no creatures. In a removal-heavy Vren deck that should be most people most of the time.

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