https://origami.codes

[huand]

First of all I would like to warmly thank @asny for the amazing crate. This project surely would have been so much harder without this!

Let's talk a bit about the project: https://origami.codes

The aim of the project is to allow the user to use their images to produce foldable origamis. The user "upload" their images (not really upload as everything happens in the browser and no image is ever transmitted) and use them in some parts of the folded origami. At the end of the process the user gets back 2 images, the recto and verso to print on a sheet of paper that he can later fold. When the origami is folded, the images appear back. Pretty simple concept? (or not)

I make a youtube video about the website concept here

The page is built with trunk and with three-d as the main loop, and use the egui integration for user input.

I spend 4.5 months on this project (after work), to learn rust and a bit of web technologies and 3d graphics (coming from robotics) and I really enjoyed it! (now I'm really jealous of people with Rust jobs)

Also I feel quite bad to post on a great opensource github a webpage with a Stripe integration, and I think I will add an egui input text field with a code that I will share so family and people hanging out here can get the printable images for free if they want to try. Adding the stripe integration was also a first time for me and I learned quite a few things. Also now I need to learn marketing and how to promote it to people that might be interested (0 sales this far!). Maybe next Christmas I can post how many sales i did with this website, my bet is 5!

I have other project ideas with visualizations so I might just post another show-and-tell next year!

[asny]

Thanks a lot for the nice words, I very much appreciate it 🙏 And super nice project, very fun to see it gets folded 🙂 Selling is hard and requires a lot of effort as well, so 5!=120 is an ambitious goal 😄 No matter the sales, I hope you enjoyed the process and learned something, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing what you're future projects look like 💪

[huand]

Thanks! I actually started a smaller project in January, about image projection on walls, and I chose three-d again for visualization because i had a nice experience with it with the origami project! The project is evolving but there is already a live website for it:

https://corner.builders

basically: setting up a viewpoint (so a camera pose), using an image, then projecting the image on the walls from the viewpoint, so that it appears undistorted from the viewpoint. Then I should use some sort of tiling system to get a list of printable image that i can print and put on the walls.

I started a small linkedin newsletter where I share the progress of the project :D here is the latest edition where i implemented the projection if you want a read

[huand]

(controlling the UI is from the bottom panel, and then there a collapsing menu where you can find the viewpoint settings)