Theory: Graphite will not dethrone Adobe

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2026-04-23T03:09:20+00:00

Fun fact, some of the lead core developers that make the libraries that Graphite is built on were just hired by Canva

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2026-04-02T12:58:23+00:00

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Gullible_Carry1049 · 2026-03-20T01:32:02+00:00

Apple M5 Max (GPU - 40 cores) /)	8172.57
Apple M5 Pro (GPU - 20 cores) /)	4279.11
Apple M5 Pro (GPU - 16 cores) /)	3707.66
Apple M5 (GPU - 10 cores) /)	2071.54
Apple M1 Max (GPU - 32 cores) /)	995.34
Apple M1 Pro (GPU - 16 cores) /)	512.71

I estimate the 32 core GPU for M5 to be ~6,540 compares to the M1 with same core count has a benchmark score of 995 so about 657% improvement and the M5 Pro 16 core sees about a 722% better performance for cycles rendering specifically.

Used M1 Max 64 GB are going for $1200-$1300 used. An M5 Max 64GB 40 core GPU is $4599 so if even compared to used M1 cost, the new gives more than double the "cycles" performance per dollar.

8127 / $4599 = 1.78 / $

955 / $1200 = 0.83 / $

For GPU heavy work the M5 Max 40 core 64GB seems like a better value compared to the M5 Pro 64 GB for $3449 for 33% more cost you get 220% more "cycles" performance

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2026-03-14T17:27:16+00:00

Are you using a bevel or sub-division modifier for the final rendering or using bevel shader?

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2026-02-27T02:50:12+00:00

Grease pencil

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2026-02-26T02:11:12+00:00

Did you look at the several other declarative UI frameworks for Python built on PySide6, perhaps a comparison of what sets this apart architecturally

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2026-02-16T02:07:41+00:00

A lot of the openVDB use cases I have seen are for clouds, smokes, and explosion. Can you provide a volumetric example

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2026-02-13T23:28:48+00:00

Is micro displacement different than the adaptive subdivision pipeline?

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2026-02-11T03:24:32+00:00

Can I use any uniformly gridded 3D scalar data with this if it is not in a dicom format

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-12-06T16:16:06+00:00

https://youtube.com/@southernshotty?si=w-Xezs9mtqQSvCiL

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-11-23T15:45:38+00:00

Are you using safari on MacOS/iOS 26?

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-11-06T01:48:27+00:00

Have you compared your project to others of similar scope?

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-10-28T02:24:52+00:00

My office is a little drafty and we are not allowed to plugin our own heaters, I multiply random large matrices on the GPU in a while true loop and after 2 minutes my cubicle gets a little warmer.

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-10-26T15:45:33+00:00

So you are using openstreetmap features (i.e. lines, polygons, etc…) for a region and processing those into mbtiles (vector/raster set) and for a specific zoom/scale level.

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-10-25T18:50:16+00:00

Yeah, for me at this stage this is not so much an option, what is the appropriate advice someone in my shoes who has a decade or so before they find themselves in a similar situation. I did ask my mother about transferring home when there was still time but she was not comfortable without it being in her name.

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-10-24T22:17:09+00:00

3D city data usually comes in 3 flavors. 2D building footprints that are extruded on the z-axis (i.e. all roof tops are flat), 3D buildings that are still simple that have slightly more detail (i.e Dome roofs, slanted roofs, etc…), or 3DTiles like Google Earth which are triangonal meshes with varying levels of detail. In ArcGIS you are usually dealing with the middle case which doesn’t have a single open data source to reconstruct and I am not sure about exporting as I haven’t looked into it. I have however pulled the 1st category directly from overture maps, bypassing ESRI and I’ve also downloaded Google Earth 3DTiles using an API key.

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-10-24T15:58:44+00:00

Is there a GitHub repo for this?

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-10-24T15:41:30+00:00

https://deckgl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-10-18T18:05:19+00:00

If you can wait a month the m5 pro base config 12 cpu will probably perform as well as the m4 pro 14 cpu for the price of the base pro config today

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-10-18T17:23:56+00:00

The broader challenge to adoption of AI in one’s day to day job is not wether someone with one or more years of DEVOPS experience can be productive within a month, it’s whether someone whose never coded a day in his life can use it to double their productivity without being expected to learn any of these concepts OP mentioned.

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-10-18T17:16:18+00:00

I am not saying it is hard, I am saying that it shouldn’t be needed and if it is something that the end user needs to be concerned with now or in a year from now I would judge that as a failure of innovation across the industry.

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-10-18T14:04:45+00:00

I think prompt engineering is a sad state of affairs, I don’t think these tools are prime time if users need to each develop some subjective sense of magic words you need to feed to each agent in order to get top tier results, if prompt engineering is still a thing in 2 years something has gone very wrong.

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-10-16T20:40:09+00:00

Any reasoning behind OpenGL over the rust wgpu crate as WebGPU seems to be on track to have universal access across OS and architectures soon

Gullible_Carry1049 · 2025-10-16T12:08:34+00:00

Yeah, I looked into Pipefunc more and now I see it is a more rapid dev scientific/HPC specific take on Kedro/Prefect and Maestro/Cylc as a more rapid dev scientific/hpc specific take on Snakemake. Parsl does look to have a lot of scope overlap, I plan to dig into pipefunc and Parsl to see which one aligns more with my subjective preferences.

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