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RE: Amazing Tool for 3D Topographic Models: Terrain2STL 🗻🗾
Hi, and welcome to the community. I don't have any 3D printing software to try it out, but I was able to find a location, generate a model and download it easily. Looks like a fascinating tool!
Greetings, and thanks for the welcome and the comment! I hope I am able to share some more interesting knowledge about my experiences with Digital Fabrication tools of all sorts, and maybe some maths sometime in the future, since I noticed you'rea fellow mathematician...! I just finished my Bachelor's Degree last year, and after more years then I expected of intense stressful and difficult situations, it is finally over, and I just feel like I need a healthy break, you know? But I'm really happy that you could easily use the tool and found it interesting as well. I got interested in reading you're Programming Diaries, and I'll do it soon when we get to the weekend! Good friday, and nice to digitally meet you :)
Congratulations on finishing your degree, and enjoy your well-earned break. It's been a while since I finished mine, but I remember how demanding the coursework was.... and it took me more years than expected, too.
I hope the programming diary articles live up to your expectations. I see that you have a background in computational mathematics, so maybe you can think about contributing to the ecosystem here with code as well as blogging. If you're interested in that, I might suggest following the accounts for @moecki, @steemchiller, @michelangelo3, and @the-gorilla as a starting point. Also, you might want to join the Steem Dev community.
Thanks again for your contributions in this community!
Thank you too again for the kind words and great suggestion of accounts! I'm hoping to have some spare time sometime during this week to really learn more about the projects in Steem Dev and about how they really function from the inside! If it is not demanding too much more of your time, I'd love to have your recommendation of good posts that explain the tools and/or github repositories of them! I admit that I've always been interested in understanding how the connection to the STEEM Blockchain works applied to real applications, but never really got to doing it. Hope you have a nice week! Cheers :)
Sorry for the delay replying.
Steemit's github repo is here, and the API documentation is here. The API doc also contains tutorials for getting started in Python, Javascript, or Ruby... although they're getting dated at this point. A lot of the development activity went away after a controversial fork back in 2020, so we really still need to rebuild much of the ecosystem. It's a good time to get in at the ground floor, but it can also be challenging. Most of the interaction uses JSON, so you don't really need much specialized blockchain knowledge to work at the app layer.
As you can tell from my programming diaries posts, I'm far from expert, but glad to answer any question I can help with. I'll see if I can find track down some other articles that have been helpful. Maybe @moecki or @steemchiller can suggest resources, too.