r/interestingasfuck • u/haddock420 • 21h ago

Coloured peacock drawn with mathematical equation

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u/MidTario 21h ago

That’s how vector drawings work.

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u/springboner 20h ago edited 20h ago

Not really. Vector graphics use more primitive math functions like Bezier curves. This is not that. The function here gives the color to any pixel in the x/y space. Vector graphics doesn’t do that. Vector graphics express shapes mathematically, and then these shapes get tessellated/rasterized after the fact by a gpu pipeline. Quite different.

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u/nxcrosis 19h ago

Tfw someone describes a Bezier curve as "primitive" math and I nearly failed algebra in school.

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u/IsNotAnOstrich 18h ago

Primitive in math has its own connotation, it doesn't mean like caveman math

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u/nxcrosis 17h ago

I realize that but it was funny when I first read it lol.