My iceberg touched to bottom. Nice.
Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
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Re: Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
#152There seems to be a bug where in Firefox for Android the page scrolls even when you're drawing in the canvas. This makes it annoying to try and draw relined figures, which often result in horizontal lines.
I don't have that problem in mobile Chrome.
Re: Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
#153So without any further knowledge about how icebergs should orient and how scientists draw them: Icebergs in 3D will generally have different mass distributions than the corresponding 2D projections that we are drawing here. For example, there will generally be higher "2D mass density" in the center. Consequently, it is possible that the scientists "drawing icebergs wrong" are actually right and it just looks/"behaves…
It's just potential energy minimization. A tall thin iceberg will float on its size in 2D or 3D.
That’s assuming the 2D representation is representative of near uniform density. In 2D an I-beam and and a solid beam look identical, but they don’t represent the same amount of mass for potential energy minimization.
Play with 3D shapes and you could get identical 2D cross sections to float in arbitrary orientations.
Re: Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
#154I thought it would be fun to share icebergs. ^^ https://iceberger.boomla.net/?id=0162f6a3c3e7e1e1bde4fade9c1...
And here I was just drawing penises!
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#155Re: Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
#156I get interesting results if I draw a figure 8 (or a figure ∞). I wonder if it's treating one of the lobes as having negative density.
I think this was patched just now. On my last visit a few minutes ago the bug still worked, now it removes any larger bits where the lines intersect. Also, the code has been amended right where this comment is: // People like to draw shapes with kinks, which results // in part of the polygon being treated as negative area. // turf.unkinkPolygon can be used to find the kinks and // separate the polygon into multiple p…
Damnit it was so much more fun before the "fix".
Re: Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
#157If you drawn an iceberg the size of the world then there won't be anything to float.
Re: Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
#158You can create icebergs with 'holes' in them, which have very interesting floating behaviour [0]. It doesn't work every time, though. Not sure why.
Re: Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
#159You can create icebergs with 'holes' in them, which have very interesting floating behaviour [0]. It doesn't work every time, though. Not sure why. [0] https://imgur.com/a/0lcW8xT
This works for the classic ice-cream cone shape to induce stable dynamics too.
Re: Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
#160Challenge: Frame the sun. It took me about a dozen tries.