2 comments

  • jack_pp 7 hours ago ago

    Why did you name it tesseract when there's already a very well known library with the same name?

    • infrastellar 7 hours ago ago

      Because naming things is one of the two hard problems in computer science — the other being cache invalidation and off-by-one errors.

      More seriously: Tesseract (the 4D hypercube) felt right for a tool that adds a dimension to how you see architecture. And if you've seen Interstellar, there's a scene where the tesseract reveals the hidden structure behind everything — that's basically what this does for your codebase.

      I was aware of the OCR library but figured a 40-year-old project can share its name with a newcomer. No one's going to accidentally npm install their way into a 3D architecture editor.