“Autotomb” identifies physical objects/artifacts/specimens mentioned in Egyptological (e.g., Giza) excavation diaries then generates (Meshy) 3D model sets based on those descriptions which are deployed in in virtual reality (AFrame). The output is like an immersive word cloud but the words are 3D objects and you can navigate the scene with your body. Still early days but the desktop pipeline is functional: https://github.com/Cook4986/AutoTomb
Readit NewsCook4986 commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) · Posted by u/david927
Great! This will be excellent for beginners. I'm considering teaching chess to my kids. Can I still find it online? My searches on Amazon and Google haven't yielded the results I need.
Here’s a (free) 3D printable version I designed a few years back, for just this reason:
https://sketchfab.com/cook4986/collections/instructional-che...
The Knight was by far the hardest to design, but the 3D aspect helps visualize movement across two planes (I.e., jumps)
Cook4986 commented on Show HN: AI mentor in your iPhone that collects your memories and gives feedback aisama.co/... · Posted by u/kodjima33
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Cook4986 commented on The bill of materials for the Apple headset leaked twitter.com/cixliv/status... · Posted by u/avian
Imagine if the whole internet was VR ready? MyHouse.pk3, I’m looking at you.
Currently working with a student group to build out a 3D scene generator (https://github.com/Cook4986/Longhand), and the prospect of arbitrary, hyper-specific mesh arrays on demand is thrilling.
Right now, we are relying on the Sketchfab API to populate our (Blender) scenes, which is an imperfect lens through which to visualize the contents of texts that our non-technical "clientele" are studying.
Since we are publishing these scenes via WebXR (Hubs), we have specific criteria related to poly counts (latency, bandwidth, etc) and usability. Regarding the latter concern, it's not clear that our end users will want to wait/pay for compute.
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Cook4986 commented on What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? noctslackv2.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/ColinWright
From “A college mystery: the story of the apparition in the Fellows' Garden at Christ's College, Cambridge
Baker, A. P / 2nd ed.
1925”:
Cook4986 commented on The saga of Apple’s troubled mixed reality headset arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/andyjohnson0
> Productivity is correlated with display size
Do you have a source?
Anecdotal, I work without external displays and keep one window in focus, this helps my productivity.
Andrews, C., Endert, A. and North, C., 2010, April. Space to think: large high-resolution displays for sensemaking. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 55-64):
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1753326.1753336?casa_toke...
There’s much more. Search “sensemaking” or “immersive analytics” on Scholar. Depth and width of field, achieved via stereoscopy and tracking, is well documented as a performance enhancer when it comes to generalizeable task completion in VR.
Cook4986 commented on Ask HN: What projects are you working on this weekend? · Posted by u/WhiteOwlEd
Revising a sci-fi story about the first pizza place on Mars: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wdwj6fn2qjywoct/Best%20Pizza_Cook2...
Also, trying to figure out how to distribute ~1000 arbitrary meshes in 3D space (https://github.com/Cook4986/Longhand), and installing the window AC units (Boston suburbs).
Cook4986 commented on The Zen of Drinking Alone drunkard.com/the-zen-of-d... · Posted by u/frankswildyears
Three beers max. No whiskey on a weeknight. Wine is a wildcard. You have to blast off. You have to get outside your own head.