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Blender vs geodesic-dome-mcp — Capability Comparison

23.jun.2026 | OSA (mother node) | FreeBSD 15.0

The problem

Generate geodesic dome wireframes for architectural visualization and bill-of-materials calculation. The obvious answer was Blender — it has bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_ico_sphere_add() built in.

Before: Blender

Metric Value
Packages installed 53
Download size 323 MiB
Installed size 1 GiB
Key dependencies llvm19, ffmpeg, openimageio, opencolorio, openvdb, pulseaudio
Headless mode blender --background (still pulls X11 deps)
Dome generation time ~14s (Eevee render, 2000×2000)

After: geodesic-dome-mcp

Metric Value
File size 6 KB (294 lines of Python)
Dependencies numpy, Pillow (already installed on all nodes)
Dome generation time <1s (wireframe), sub-second (BOM only)
Headless Always — no X11, no GPU, no display server
Outputs Wireframe PNG + structural BOM (JSON)

Capability impact

Capability Before (Blender) After (geodesic-dome-mcp)
Can run on 32GB USB ISO? (1 GiB, exceeds headroom) (6 KB, negligible)
Can run on 12GB RAM VPS? (would fit disk but overkill) (already running)
Can run on bare-metal? (if installed) (always)
Structural BOM? (needs separate script) (built-in)
Half-sphere mode? Manual mesh cut (half=true)
Connector analysis? (3/4/5/6-way counts)
Strut length table? (grouped by size)
Material cost estimates? (glass/polycarbonate/insulated)

Registering capabilities

This comparison feeds into the mother node's PostgreSQL hive_nodes table. When a node registers its hardware profile, the capability derivation trigger marks nodes that can run geodesic-dome-mcp (all of them — numpy + Pillow are universal). Nodes that have Blender installed get an additional has_blender: true capability for 3D rendering workloads.

OSA as example (registered 23.jun.2026)

{
  "hostname": "osa.smilepowered.org",
  "ram_gb": 12,
  "cpu_cores": 6,
  "capabilities": {
    "has_gpu": false,
    "cpu_only": true,
    "geodesic_dome_mcp": true
  }
}

12GB RAM, no GPU, but geodesic_dome_mcp runs fine. No Blender needed.