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Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

#81

When I first opened it, its basically a bunch of static pages that made absolutely no sense. My first question was 'why is this garbage being #1 on HN?' Then I realized that, unlike the early web with banners of "best viewed in Netscape navigator", this was an unstated "best viewed in google chrome". Alas. At least please check and validate if the site works in Firefox, or notify appropriately. Because this demonstra…

Worked perfectly for me on Firefox 142.0 on Arch Linux.

Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

#82
Really nice visualisation.

Does anyone know of any tooling I could use to do some plotting like this in 3D space even a fraction as nice looking as OPs? I'm not a web dev but I am a dev, but would prefer something high enough level that I can focus on the "what" (to plot) rather than the "how".

Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

#84

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/08/12/fibonacci-lattice/ If you want a spiral that covers the sphere with evenly spaced samples, consider this approach.

And the Matt Parker Stand-up Maths video: "Golf balls: How many holes in one?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNTnk1VFoJY

Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

#85
I am about to start my computer science degree, so this visualization got me really excited to dive into the mathematics of it all. I love to see these kind of animations, but the math behind them sends my brain spinning! Very cool to see it broken down in a digestible way like this.

Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

#86
You can play with the equations on 3D Desmos here: https://www.desmos.com/3d/t66etxi1y8

Interesting to note that the parametric equations of the spiral are linear in spherical coordinates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_coordinate_tran...

Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

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post #23

> If you like this, please consider following me on Twitter and sharing this with your friends. I do like this and will share with a couple of friends. But I no longer have a Twitter account and will definitely not rejoin. Would you consider adding an RSS or JSON feed to your website? Or make a Mastodon account, those provide RSS feeds by default.

Man, that whole ‘please make an RSS or JSON feed for me’ request reads like Richard Stallman emailing himself a webpage to print out later, let them use Twitter or whatever medium they wants

Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

#88
I've recently gotten interested in p5js, which is a fun and easy way to explore this kind of stuff; if anyone here is currently thinking (like I am) that you want to try this out yourself, I'd give it a try: https://p5js.org/tutorials/setting-up-your-environment/

Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

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post #23

> If you like this, please consider following me on Twitter and sharing this with your friends. I do like this and will share with a couple of friends. But I no longer have a Twitter account and will definitely not rejoin. Would you consider adding an RSS or JSON feed to your website? Or make a Mastodon account, those provide RSS feeds by default.

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