Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles

Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles adekau.github.io

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phqb5 days ago

Shameless plug: I made this tool years ago (predates AI) that draws arbitrary images using Fourier circles https://phqb.github.io/circle_drawing/.

nolroz5 days 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.

lacedeconstruct5 days ago

Very cool style, animating the glow and the number of circles looks really interesting

nomel4 days 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?

vivzkestrel4 days 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?

joedrago4 days ago

I don't know if you're familiar with the 3blue1brown YouTube Channel, but he does an outrageously good job of explaining this mechanism in about 20 minutes. Search YouTube for "3b1b de4" and it should be the first video: "But what is a Fourier series? From heat flow to drawing with circles".

aanet4 days 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.

polotics5 days 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."

d0mine5 days ago

It is literally true when you are going in circles ;)

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