Show HN: Glyph3D – A 3D text visualizer for macOS and iOS / iPadOS (opens in new tab)

Also, I tried to open Glyph3D.xcodeproj from the GitHub repo in Xcode and got an error message that says:

> The project ‘Glyph3D’ is damaged and cannot be opened. Examine the project file for invalid edits or unresolved source control conflicts.

> Path: /Users/user/src/LookAtThat/Glyph3D.xcodeproj

> Exception: didn't find classname for 'isa' key

Although this could also just be that the version of Xcode I have installed is too old. I haven't used Xcode in a while so I haven't updated it for a while either.

My currently installed version of Xcode is Xcode version 15.0.

> call flow graphs

Stay tuned! This is a planned future I had temporarily removed while I worked on performance in the Metal engine, and is coming back very soon =) I'd love the opportunity to pick your brain about potential intermediate formats as well - e.g., if you have specific languages or datasets that you'd want to be able to operate on. I have some ideas about adding a tiny runtime scripting layer in this as well to operate on text JIT, instead of just laying it out.

> Can this work with visionos?

Theoretically yes, but I haven't done the work to composite the two rendering layers together. Like a lot of Metal, there is a massive amount of documentation that would certainly be helpful if written, but currently isn't. I do plan on this, however, in the future.

Thanks for the input!

- Yep, it's annoying to have the current window controls overlayed by the safe area. You can still move it around if you're careful enough, but yes, it's not great.

- The mobile app expects you to download from Github directly for now, because yes, there's no direct file import yet. Not a hard add, but just needs a bit of a different pipe to either copy or access the out of sandbox files.

- Yes, the mobile windowing controls are meant more to allow access to all the demos for now, not for a pretty UI. It's not terrible on iPad since you can use the pencil for more accuracy, but I did have a plan to put the tabbed and sidebar controls back in place for mobile at some point.

- Sorry about the search; if the 'reset' control doesn't do the trick, you might be out of luck for this version. The same fix I need to put in place to work within the current screen's safe area is the same that would keep these windows within viewport. And, ideally, to include a similar 'IDE' view as the desktop to avoid these multi window cases that are inconvenient or broken.

I'll be focusing on a few changes related specifically to mobile UI in the next few builds of this. Touch, for example, has no way to rotate along the y-axis, and there's no way to 'hover' for bookmarking on tap.

Glad you think so! =)

I'd love to chat with ya. Do you see my email? Feel free to email me! If not, reply here with whatever you'd prefer to chat with and I'll get back to you.

This is exactly the use case I'm aiming for! I've done a lot of mentoring, a big part of getting familiar with a code base is building one's mental map for where things are in any kind of relationship to what things are doing. In upcoming versions, I'll be restoring the 'state sharing' control that lets multiple devices share their camera orientations and bookmakers between users in a local P2P state, and maybe eventually some remote server backed way.

Ha! You're kinda right and I like it. I guess thinking of literal files floating in space isn't a unique human experience eh? Good to know I've got someone like me out there at least =)