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[update 1<\/a>][update 2<\/a>]<\/p>\n

I lost my wife’s wedding band a few years ago. She handed it to me while I was driving and asked me to take it to a jeweler to get it hammered back “in round”. Of course, I lost it immediately.<\/p>\n

My original wedding band I still have, but it’s always been a little unsatisfying. My ring finger is thinner than hers, and the pattern never quite matched where the original jeweler sized it down.<\/p>\n

So, for our 10-year anniversary, I’m making bespoke rings. And because I’m an Open Source guy, I had to do it with Open Source Software. And of course, the code for the rings will be open source too.<\/p>\n

\"P1000693\"<\/a>

My original wedding band<\/p><\/div>\n

Code? For Wedding Rings?<\/p>\n

\"canvas\"<\/a>

digital model of 10th anniversary ring<\/p><\/div>\n

That’s right. I wrote my wedding bands in Javascript. With OpenJsCad<\/a>. I’m having them cast by TechFormCasting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you have a WebGL browser (Firefox or Chrome, at this writing) you can see the demo<\/a> below.<\/p>\n

In true open-source fashion, I had to develop a pull request for the upstream to make this render, due to an odd limitation in WebGL.<\/p>\n

Warning: it takes a 10-30 seconds to render.\u00a0 Use the mouse wheel (or equivalent) to zoom in.<\/p>\n