clawdie-iso/docs/DOME-GEOMETRY-CAPABILITY.md
Sam & Claude 6275fee97e docs: harness-neutral cleanup + restore green markdown gate
Pi-era residue in current-tense docs/strings (CHANGELOG history left intact):
- ONBOARDING-SIMPLIFICATION: COLIBRI_AUTOSPAWN_PI -> COLIBRI_AUTOSPAWN; 'Pi
  agent' -> 'agent'.
- clawdie-join-hive.sh: user-facing 'Pi agent is live' / 'no Pi agent' ->
  harness-neutral (default agent is now zot).
- clawdie-live-seed.README.txt: COLIBRI_AUTOSPAWN_PI -> COLIBRI_AUTOSPAWN.
- stage-colibri-iso.sh provider.env.sample: the AUTOSPAWN_ARGS example showed
  '--mode json' (invalid for the zot default); note the default is
  harness-derived (zot -> rpc, pi -> --mode json).

Also restore the markdown format gate: 5 docs from the 0.12.0 work were
prettier-dirty, so ./scripts/check-format.sh was already failing on main (the
gate was red and unenforced — same pattern as the colibri build break).
prettier --write brings them to style; gate is green again. No prose changes
in those 5 — formatting only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-23 18:08:58 +02:00

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Blender vs geodesic-dome-mcp — Capability Comparison

2026-06-23 | 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 usb_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 2026-06-23)

{
  "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.