# Key Points from IRC Log

• Discussion about developing a CAD tool with PythonOCC, with CryptoQuick exploring options to generate meshes on a server that users could control remotely, expressing desire for a simpler "tinycad" or "lolcad" solution.

• Kanzure shared a link to GPGPU tutorials at moderngpu.com, providing resources for general-purpose computing on graphics processing units.

• Conversation about microfluidics and "lab on a chip" technology, with delinquentme seeking to acquire pipette tips for experimentation and mentioning contacts at Hamilton Robotics.

• Kanzure shared analysis of IRC conversation data, noting the Quantified Self forum had reached 200 users, and creating tag clouds showing conversation topics at diyhpl.us/~bryan/meetlog/.

• Technical discussion about CAD rendering pipelines, with kanzure recommending direct triangle rendering in WebGL rather than CryptoQuick's proposed pipeline of OpenSCAD → STL → Meshlab → OBJ → SceneJS/JSON.

• Debate about the merits of different CAD approaches, with kanzure suggesting pythonocc for those concerned with data representation in memory, and pointing to geometry helpers in the geom/ folder of http://diyhpl.us/cgit/skdb.