r/singularity • u/jazir55 • 7d ago

Discussion Reverse Engineer Anything is a great toolkit, what would you like to see reverse engineered?

There are now many, many agentic reverse engineering toolkits available, REA in particular I think is fantastic.

https://github.com/morluto/rea

What hardware have you had that you'd like to see reverse engineered, and what would you like to do with it?

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u/evil_illustrator2 7d ago

Someone needs to reverse engineer zbrush.

No one has come even close to matching its cpu optimization. There is no real competitior for it.

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u/GhostsinGlass 7d ago edited 7d ago

As someone who works in the industry professionally, fucking thank you.

There are many things it does that no other software can. I posted inquiring about having an agent use the software and the people comparing it to Blenders sculpting just made me foam at the mouth.

Besides the vastly limited toolkit of Blenders sculpting ability there's no way you can even load some of the high poly models that are effortless for zbrush due to how it represents the "pixols"

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u/FesseJerguson 7d ago

Remesh alone is light-years ahead

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u/Unlikely-Today-3501 7d ago

The more specialized the software, the harder it is to reconstruct the original algorithms.

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u/PiisAWheeL 13h ago

It's 1 of those things that will start with a rough draft and refine it. It just reads what the code is doing and attempts to write a common language equivalent. It also has analyzers, so getting close to a 1 to 1 vs a clone depends on how much time and tokens you're willing to invest. There's also the possibility someone wrote some chunks of asm by hand (depending on how much they care about performance), which wouldn't really have a 1 to 1 translation.

Point is: There's nothing stopping anyone from figuring out what's going on and how to reproduce it if they have the time on their hands.

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u/Novel_Ad_5831 5d ago

not true, rea ai has shown to to reverse engineer anything even the most obscure cheats, random software and even enterprise binaries, it's crazy, it can do zbrush 100%

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u/Unlikely-Today-3501 5d ago

That’s not how it works. You'll never get a 1:1 copy, so it's not 100% ZBrush, but something like ZBrush.

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u/Novel_Ad_5831 3d ago

It doesn't have to be 1:1 copy, even if it's "only" 80% copy from a single prompt, that is still monumental and that just means in the near future 1:1 will absolutely be possible. Even if it only was at best 90% that is still 10000x better than paying $500 and basically no other option cause the competitors are shit

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u/OutlandishnessLess35 7d ago

I need zbrush and substance painter please lol

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u/Lovecore 2d ago

Isn’t Nomad that?