The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals • Hacker News Board

Re: The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

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Post by motdang » Mon, May 10, 2021, 3:57 AM UTC

Re: The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

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Post by dogsboywonder » Mon, May 10, 2021, 4:02 AM UTC

Reminds me of Junju Ito’s manga, Uzumaki, a masterful horror piece which involves a town becoming consumed with spirals, anyone else read/seen it?

Re: The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

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Post by Vaslo » Mon, May 10, 2021, 4:27 AM UTC

dogsboywonder wrote: post #12

Reminds me of Junju Ito’s manga, Uzumaki, a masterful horror piece which involves a town becoming consumed with spirals, anyone else read/seen it?

Was just coming here to say this - probably a bit gory for some when it comes to body horror but very cool manga!

Re: The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

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Post by 4b11b4 » Mon, May 10, 2021, 5:28 AM UTC

This is a beautiful example of how to teach math and computer science (or simply, introducing students to "programming" or "coding") at the same time.

Re: The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

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Post by BLKNSLVR » Mon, May 10, 2021, 7:39 AM UTC

Reminds me of Geiss winamp visualisations. Recently installed ProjectM on my Android TV device. Mesmerising.

Re: The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

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Post by throwaway_2047 » Mon, May 10, 2021, 8:13 AM UTC

Tangential, but I am curious. What is the embedded animation/player made of?

Re: The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

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Post by thetrustworthy » Mon, May 10, 2021, 8:42 AM UTC

throwaway_2047 wrote: post #16

Tangential, but I am curious. What is the embedded animation/player made of?

It's a great JavaScript library for creative coding called p5.js. Here is the code for one of the degenerate spirals in their web editor, which you can play around with: https://editor.p5js.org/dogatekin/sketches/utJunQyLi

Re: The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

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Post by thetrustworthy » Mon, May 10, 2021, 8:47 AM UTC

4b11b4 wrote: post #14

This is a beautiful example of how to teach math and computer science (or simply, introducing students to "programming" or "coding") at the same time.

Thanks a lot! I agree that there is great educational potential in this format. I've definitely learned some cool things myself from the posts at https://explorabl.es/

Re: The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

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Post by MrPatan » Mon, May 10, 2021, 8:49 AM UTC

Ooh, and I got an optical illusion for free. After staring at the spiral for a bit the text then seemed to want to spin as well.

Re: The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

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Post by codr7 » Mon, May 10, 2021, 8:50 AM UTC

I find it interesting that the visualizations seem to cycle polygon complexity, from circles to squares to triangles and back again.