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The Shadows Lurking in the Equations – Underwater Islands

37 pointsby 2d agogods.art
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1h agoHN ↗

That has another name but I forget. Essentially contour plotting in high res.

26m agoHN ↗

Do you mean Marching Squares? Or Signed Distance Fields? Both are related, but not exactly the same.

1h agoHN ↗

These visualizations are cool, but I feel only a little misleading. Any 2D relation can be plotted in 3D, and setting z=0 shows the original line in 2D. The whole notion of fuzzy is really just saying "let's make a heat map of how far z is from 0". That said, I can see how for some people, thinking about the roots of a function in 3D this way _could_ help unlock deeper understanding of where your roots are at than just staring at 3D graph.

18m agoHN ↗

Also, the visualisations are to some extent an artifact of how you arrange the equation: rearranging terms between the left and right side won't change the line but it will change these visualisations. The first example illustrates it nicely: the 'hole' only exists because of a redundant division by (x^2 + y^2) on either side of the equation.

3m agoHN ↗

My gut tells me that exploring mathematics in this way has very high potential for bringing on future advancements. (1) Simple elements that (2) reveal coherent structures, and were (3) hidden to historic geniuses due to requiring exhaustive computation.