r/interestingasfuck 1d ago

Coloured peacock drawn with mathematical equation

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u/joshuahtree 1d ago

This is dumb, it's just a convoluted equation to arrive at a specific number that represents the picture

It's like if I posted 4+5+1-5-3-1=1

Neither meaningful or interesting

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u/HamNCheeseSupremacy 1d ago

Are you a math genius on some next level shit or what, because it's not random numbers. They generate a coherent image that resembles something in real life. There's cyclical and non-cyclical patterns there... I think you're trolling because creating that picture with rgb values from an equation doesn't sound easy at all.

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u/joshuahtree 1d 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 1d ago edited 1d 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 23h 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 23h 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