Reza Ali
@rezaali.bsky.social
Product Designer • Software Engineer
Designed & prototyped this Sakura 🌺 Coaster (brass) in my studio over the past week!
Learned a lot about designing for manufacturing & how to generate efficient tool paths.
I’m still not great, but learning and super excited to keep going. 🙃🙂🙃
#productdesign #bantamcnc #machinist #cnc #cad #cam
Learned a lot about designing for manufacturing & how to generate efficient tool paths.
I’m still not great, but learning and super excited to keep going. 🙃🙂🙃
#productdesign #bantamcnc #machinist #cnc #cad #cam
April 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Designed & prototyped this Sakura 🌺 Coaster (brass) in my studio over the past week!
Learned a lot about designing for manufacturing & how to generate efficient tool paths.
I’m still not great, but learning and super excited to keep going. 🙃🙂🙃
#productdesign #bantamcnc #machinist #cnc #cad #cam
Learned a lot about designing for manufacturing & how to generate efficient tool paths.
I’m still not great, but learning and super excited to keep going. 🙃🙂🙃
#productdesign #bantamcnc #machinist #cnc #cad #cam
Designed
3D Printed
Finally Hung Up
3D Printed
Finally Hung Up
February 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Designed
3D Printed
Finally Hung Up
3D Printed
Finally Hung Up
❇️ Sparkle Green Filament ❇️
February 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
❇️ Sparkle Green Filament ❇️
Designing a precise pen holder for my favorite pens (Sakura Pima Micron)… might try to get these fabricated in aluminum and anodized in black. #productdesign #render
February 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Designing a precise pen holder for my favorite pens (Sakura Pima Micron)… might try to get these fabricated in aluminum and anodized in black. #productdesign #render
This yo-yo thing / obsession is getting out of "hand" 😂
February 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This yo-yo thing / obsession is getting out of "hand" 😂
I give you my latest creation, the apple spinning beach ball of death yo-yo, made with valence.
January 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I give you my latest creation, the apple spinning beach ball of death yo-yo, made with valence.
Designing a yo-yo to distract myself from the world burning
January 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Designing a yo-yo to distract myself from the world burning
I remade the famous colorful Apple logo using Valence 3D!
1. Used the new text primitive to create the logo
2. Used the boolean intersection op to create the various sections
3. Set each part’s material color to match the reference
4. Exported a bunch of shots
5. Used VSCO to apply filters
#3D
1. Used the new text primitive to create the logo
2. Used the boolean intersection op to create the various sections
3. Set each part’s material color to match the reference
4. Exported a bunch of shots
5. Used VSCO to apply filters
#3D
January 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I remade the famous colorful Apple logo using Valence 3D!
1. Used the new text primitive to create the logo
2. Used the boolean intersection op to create the various sections
3. Set each part’s material color to match the reference
4. Exported a bunch of shots
5. Used VSCO to apply filters
#3D
1. Used the new text primitive to create the logo
2. Used the boolean intersection op to create the various sections
3. Set each part’s material color to match the reference
4. Exported a bunch of shots
5. Used VSCO to apply filters
#3D
This weekend I wrote a GLTF and GLB file exporter for Valence 3D (built on cgltf)
With #gltf & #glb exporting you can quickly import your #3D scenes made in valence3d.app into rendering & game engines.
GLTF is widely used on the web so I’m hoping this will help people with #threejs #r3f #webdev
With #gltf & #glb exporting you can quickly import your #3D scenes made in valence3d.app into rendering & game engines.
GLTF is widely used on the web so I’m hoping this will help people with #threejs #r3f #webdev
January 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
More processing and thinking thru the algorithm(s)
January 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
More processing and thinking thru the algorithm(s)
If you are ever curious what some of these algorithms start as, here is a sneak peak into how to create polygon faces that has holes to feed into a half-edge mesh. This will be used to create 3D text meshes. Rasterizing a glyph is not insanely hard, properly handling holes is where it gets hard.
January 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
If you are ever curious what some of these algorithms start as, here is a sneak peak into how to create polygon faces that has holes to feed into a half-edge mesh. This will be used to create 3D text meshes. Rasterizing a glyph is not insanely hard, properly handling holes is where it gets hard.
Added support for exporting polygon fill colors based on shading (matcap, normal, diffuse and wireframe)
January 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Added support for exporting polygon fill colors based on shading (matcap, normal, diffuse and wireframe)
Some progress, definitely not perfect or super fast. But good enough for some art plots, etc. #penplotter #svg #3D #meshtosvg
January 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Some progress, definitely not perfect or super fast. But good enough for some art plots, etc. #penplotter #svg #3D #meshtosvg
Appreciate all the suggestions! Going to try them next. I tried to just brute force it by using tons of raycasting and polygon clipping, got pretty far, but then ran into the issues @jcowles.bsky.social mentioned. The red faces below show partially visible faces (from their vertices point of view)
January 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Appreciate all the suggestions! Going to try them next. I tried to just brute force it by using tons of raycasting and polygon clipping, got pretty far, but then ran into the issues @jcowles.bsky.social mentioned. The red faces below show partially visible faces (from their vertices point of view)
Working on exporting SVGs of 3D meshes. Anyone have insights on hidden surface removal or polygon clipping. I’m currently thinking of raycasting and clipping polygons. Just seems like a lot.
January 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Working on exporting SVGs of 3D meshes. Anyone have insights on hidden surface removal or polygon clipping. I’m currently thinking of raycasting and clipping polygons. Just seems like a lot.
Finally got path traced renders exporting properly out of Valence 3D
December 27, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Finally got path traced renders exporting properly out of Valence 3D
Wrapping my head around radiance cascades for global illumination 🤓
December 9, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Wrapping my head around radiance cascades for global illumination 🤓
Forgot how fun pottery is :)
December 8, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Forgot how fun pottery is :)
lil art sculpture I made but never shared
December 7, 2024 at 6:31 PM
lil art sculpture I made but never shared