If Gaudí Had a Cluster
summary
Flux presents a web-based visual flow programming environment that offloads heavy geometry to a cluster and a distributed execution system; the demo shows a parameterized Sagrada Familia edited in seconds and a genetic run of 50,000 variants (1,000 generations × 50 candidates) picking winners via a fitness function. Backend is a Go/C++ execution engine with V8 block workers, a value store and remote pointers to avoid massive data transfer. Frontend shifted from Polymer to leaner JS after DOM bloat (~20–30k nodes) hurt performance. SDKs, translators and a Minecraft exporter exist as prototypes.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 6:01catenary Curves
- 14:18what if Gaudí had a Cluster
- 14:41Parameterized Sagrada Familia
- 19:03Form Finding with a Genetic Algorithm
- 19:33what kind of language would Gaudí want?
- 30:06Everything is an element
- 31:33choose "Boring" Technology
- 34:56Why?
