Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles

(adekau.github.io)

75 points | by cebert 2 days ago

7 comments

  • phqb 18 hours ago
    Shameless plug: I made this tool years ago (predates AI) that draws arbitrary images using Fourier circles https://phqb.github.io/circle_drawing/.
    • nolroz 17 hours ago
      On man. Last night Claude casually suggested it knock out a Fourier solver when I asked it for some ideas for generative art projects. The singularity is weird.
    • lacedeconstruct 18 hours ago
      Very cool style, animating the glow and the number of circles looks really interesting
  • nomel 8 hours ago
    If you put a read head at the tip that that could increment the phase of some circle from reading some dot it previously put down, or some similar scheme, could you make circles Turing complete?
  • aanet 10 hours ago
    This makes me unnecessarily happy and giddy.

    I love Fourier series/transforms/DFTs irrationally.

    This just makes my heart leap with joy to see creative output with it.

  • tetris11 15 hours ago
    Can't you have another set of circles perpendicular to plane, which encode when the pencil draws, allowing for discontinuous regions?
  • vivzkestrel 3 hours ago
    - i dont understand the algorithm, can someone kindly explain

    - are all circles supposed to be one inside another?

    - is each circle always going to rotate around the bigger circle?

  • polotics 1 day ago
    I have a bit of a hard time liking this sentence in an otherwise lovely article: "The velocity is the same as the position but imaginary instead of real."
    • d0mine 22 hours ago
      It is literally true when you are going in circles ;)
  • TheLegend14 20 hours ago
    Well atoms are circles and llamas are made of atoms so real llamas are also made of circles i mean spheres similar thimg anyway