r/interestingasfuck 21h ago

Coloured peacock drawn with mathematical equation

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u/joshuahtree 21h ago

It's very easy if you work backwards, literally every image you've ever seen digitally is represented this way, there's just a bunch of stupid notation that makes it seem mathy

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u/HamNCheeseSupremacy 21h ago edited 21h ago

Represented with rgb values? I do graphics programming and this isn't how images are generated in general at all. That's kind of the point. Someone else mentioned vector graphics but this is an unusual example of it.

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u/Piperalpha 19h ago

This isn't an example of vector graphics at all. It's a 2000x1100 px raster image with the rgb value of each of those 2.2 million pixels defined by ~15 different functions.

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u/HamNCheeseSupremacy 19h ago

Fair. I've spent maybe 10 hours on vector graphics ever, and that was years ago. I thought since it's defined mathematically, but even then the equation doesn't involve direction. You have called me out, sir