Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them
Hi there :) Around a month ago, I released LDraw Nova, an agentic toolset for assembling LEGO CAD models by generating LDraw source code files. For more details, here's the Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937916 From the comments, I got the impression that there was quite an interest in seeing not only AI-generated LEGO models, but also AI-animated LEGO ones. I took a look at results from past experiments, and found it feasible to use agentic LLMs for: - analyzing the LDraw
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Source account: Hi there :) Around a month ago, I released LDraw Nova, an agentic toolset for assembling LEGO CAD models by generating LDraw source code files. For more details, here's the Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937916 From the comments, I got the impression that there was quite an interest in seeing not only AI-generated LEGO models, but also AI-animated LEGO ones. I took a look at results from past experiments, and found it feasible to use agentic LLMs for: - analyzing the LDraw
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