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pascalorg/editor tagged v1.0.0-beta.1 at 10:42 UTC on July 30, at 19,872 stars and 2,612 forks. The release reorganizes the browser-based 3D architectural editor around a stable extensible scene model: height-field terrain sculpting with undo-safe strokes and first-person collision, terrain-aware construction where walls, slabs, stairs, and columns resolve stacked support live as terrain changes, and vertical modeling with stored storey heights and explicit elevation anchors. Notable mostly as a non-agent, non-LLM project outpacing nearly every AI repo on daily star velocity. Good reminder that the whole industry isn't the thing you're reading about.
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