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Oct 27 18:34 UTC

Show HN: A 3D mesh playground for coding agents (three.js + manifold-3d) (sketchagent.dev)

5 points|by wsxiaoys||2 comments|Read full story on sketchagent.dev
When GPT-6/Gemini launched recently, a lot of the 3D demos used blender-mcp (https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp). It's cool, but you have to install blender locally and wire up plugins just to try a prompt or share a run.

I built a browser-based 3D mesh playground so you can hook up your own coding agent over MCP (or run in-browser) directly in a tab. It runs on three.js + manifold-3d for blender-like boolean/mesh editing in JS, and gives the agent a render_preview tool to take multi-view screenshots (front/right/top/iso + custom camera angles + clay mode). That way the agent can look at what it built and fix the geometry, similar to how it iterates when building a website.

The submitted link is a trace of Gemini reconstructing a Copenhagen canal scene from a photo: it hits a script error on the first pass, fixes the bug, and then goes through several rounds of checking 4-view and close-up render_preview screenshots to tweak the geometry.

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  1. 1. ryannz2||context
    I created https://sketchagent.dev/s/Y23McoC4 with my codex — out of curiosity, how does this compare to Luma / Meshy? The results seem to have much lower detail.
  2. 2. wsxiaoys||context
    Luma/Meshy are generative models that output a high-fidelity mesh in one shot. This is more about testing an LLM’s spatial and visual understanding: the agent writes the geometry code and has to reason about the 3D result from what it sees, then iterate.