Blobby modeling traces back to Maxwell's 1873 equipotential drawings
keenanisalive · x · 2026-10-10
The author traces "blobby modeling" back at least to Maxwell's 1873 treatise, where equipotential lines for charged particles effectively define nicely-curved geometry from just a few degrees of freedom: charge centers and magnitudes—a lineage that motivates the SDF-generation thread.
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