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that's a great analogy

I keep coming back to this… top left is giving cyber truck while bottom right is a jaguar!

it's like right after you get a haircut

The first one can be machined. The second one can be cast. The others don't actually exist outside of CAD because even the 3D slop printers cannot faithfully produce such as part

huh? I've only good things to say.

you're welcome!

I was about to say that almost nothing about this analogy works other than "it's driven by processes humans don't fully understand"

If you haven't already, you might want to look at CAD companies like NTop that use Functional Representations rather than Non-Manifold to describe their geometry.

the analogy holds up

This exists about 25+ years, modelling by finite element analysis. Production was difficult before 3d metal printers.