Оur cultural and recreational initiatives still leave some time to work on our software development projects. We have been investigating how digital medicine solutions can transform patient care — from remote monitoring and telehealth to AI-driven diagnostics, personalized treatment plans, and algorithmic image analysis in medical software systems. In fact, our engineers have already been contributing to projects in 3D medical software, digital dentistry, and medical device integration, applying LEDAS' core strengths in geometry, mesh processing, and cloud systems.
Our expertise in 3D modeling and constraint-based design has proven equally effective in developing dental CAD/CAM systems, where accurate geometric modeling is essential for creating crowns, implants, and orthodontic aligners. These projects often require sophisticated shape reconstruction, parametric modeling, and tolerance control — technologies that originated in mechanical and architectural CAD but now find new purpose in healthcare.
At the same time, our LEDAS Cloud Platform provides a solid foundation for 3D healthcare solutions on the web. These solutions rely on a secure, cloud-based 3D framework for processing and visualizing large volumes of medical imaging data. This enables clinicians to work comfortably in a web environment, while giving patients access to safe, personalized digital health tools.
We often refer to our work in medical software development and the challenges of building high-performance medical imaging pipelines when discussing cross-domain innovation. The insights gained from solving these problems are now feeding back into our other fields of expertise such as 3D simulation, polygonal mesh optimization and free-form geometric modeling, creating a cycle where innovation in medicine accelerates progress in engineering, and vice versa.
And now we'll share something about our leisure time. The next Ledas table tennis tournament is starting right now. It usually lasts several months, so by the new year we'll know the new champions. And over the last few months we've had a really nice time going to the beach.
Regarding our book club, the whole world celebrates the birthday of our dear Miguel de Cervantes (29 September 1547), so our book club discussed the book “Don Quixote” and decided that it has its merits and could even be recommended to someone to read! The book club is even ready to share a couple of thoughts on this subject:
- A parody of chivalric novels can turn out to be the perfect chivalric novel.
- You can praise the lady of your heart even if everyone thinks you're crazy.
- And even if everyone thinks you're crazy, by continuing to follow your principles and ideals (preferably noble ones), you can ultimately get everyone to play by your rules without them even noticing (a very profound thought, it seems).
- Don't be afraid to look ridiculous (or be afraid, decide for yourself) if you are going to do something noble, something just... be a knight! (Or don't be! Decide for yourself). The world is not fair, but as long as Don Quixotes are alive, hope for such a world lives on (something along those lines).
We also discussed the book “Wind, Sand and Stars” (French title: Terre des hommes, literally "Land of Men"). The vast majority of those present at the discussion decided that the book was definitely liked by the vast majority of those present. I would like to note that
- It is not only The Little Prince that is good, our comrade, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
- And it was not only our friend, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who used memorable metaphors in The Little Prince.
- It was interesting for pilots in those days–unline now. If they didn't fly, they would crash, but they would survive to fly again and crash again, but survive...
- It is amazing that a military pilot with vast experience of that very turbulent 20th century... He can write such life-affirming literature about willpower, feats, and superhuman deeds without touching on the subject of war itself.
- Well, yes, the book is really about the human condition, what is, is.
- We recommend it to almost everyone in our club–or, to be more precise, to almost everyone who wants to (or even doesn't want to so much) read this text at your leisure!
We also discussed the novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls”. The brief and rather unexpected conclusion was that everyone liked the book. It turned out that Ernest Hemingway is first and foremost a good writer and only secondarily a macho man.
Everyone's favorite (we really hope so) excerpts:
- When you drink often with James Joyce, be prepared for your novel to be compared to Ulysses.
- It's normal to confuse Remarque and Hemingway.
- The whole novel was carried on the shoulders of Pablo, who was sometimes brave, sometimes not so much.
- This novel may even have the happiest ending of all Hemingway's works.
- The bell tolls for us all!
- You might say that it's impossible to like everything, that such a thing doesn't happen. And you would be right... the film based on the novel is “so-so.”
See our previous thoughts about The three-Body Problem, Feynman, Zarathustra, and Monte Cristo.