Do consider the value of the wood in relation to your cuts. A well-placed cut not only guarantees safety but will also take the maximum board feet from the tree.
replyi work a lot with NVEL for this. one time even tried porting nvel to wasm for fun and client accessibility. we "virtually buck" trees which seems like could be applied to your proposed use case. if op wants to go down this path: https://github.com/FMSC-Measurements/VolumeLibrary/tree/77d4...
replySeems insignificant. What are you optimizing for- an extra foot or two?
replyYes, board feet is usually measured by the inch.
replyAren't longer boards worth more per boardfoot too?
replyYes, and the wider the more it costs per bf as well.
replyI have a couple products I make that require 12" widths, which means I pay a whole lot more per bf than < 10" widths at my hardwood supplier.
Yes, but most trees are plenty tall enough.
replyThen just make the cut as low to the ground as possible. You don’t need a lot of complex math for that.
replyThis is the kind of thing that makes me love HN. An idea I would never have thought of, with an immediately obvious use in multiple ways (fall path plus ideal lumber cutting?), probably very difficult, yet being tackled with one implementation already... and spoken of quite humbly.
replyI was imagining something like this for pruning fruit trees — something to help noobs like me see how to put pruning guidelines into practice on a real, overgrown tree. Good luck!
replyThat’s a great idea, but so much liability if the user is an amateur and follows steps incorrectly
replyOr perhaps follows the steps correctly.
replyHow does the graph representation help you solve the problem?
replyI was mixing methods, sorry. My initial rendition for solving the cuts would initialise a somewhat sparse network from tree to ground, and solve for non-overlapping paths.
replyThis became convoluted and I just opted for a far easier method of solving vector intersections.
Its also not perfect since I haven't factored in rotation origin very well, and I'm now pursuing a far simpler physics-based approach
Where I live this could be very helpful becuase people is too, how to say it, maybe ignorant in safety and logic specs. Also could be usefull to know or estimate what tree are in a innminent or highr posibilities of fall with wind.
replyHappy to help!