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Got a bit frustrated because I couldn't get anything except a flat surface above the water, then read the tweets below and realised that's the entire point: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362557149147058178.html (Many thanks to Elon for making it impossible to read more than the first tweet on x.com without an account...)
My mental model is of each side (think left/right in 2-D) of the iceberg competing with the other side to float to the surface by rotating the iceberg around it's center of gravity. The only stable positions are where these left/right rotational forces are balanced. If an iceberg is currently floating in a vertical orientation where more of it's mass to one side of it's center of gravity (bottom half) is underwater c…
Author here. Glad to see this making the rounds again after a few years. Go science! Support your local climate scientist!
This is very cool. I found shapes that do not work well with the simulation: a very wide and narrow shape (like a needle) oscillates wildly and does not seem to stop or to even slow down.
Got a bit frustrated because I couldn't get anything except a flat surface above the water, then read the tweets below and realised that's the entire point: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362557149147058178.html (Many thanks to Elon for making it impossible to read more than the first tweet on x.com without an account...)
Here's a non-flat one: https://imgur.com/a/7KANxOn Very unlikely to occur in nature I guess :-)
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There isn't necessarily just one. A rectangle-ish form could have 4.
Yes, rectangle would also be degenerate. Basically any configuration where adding an epsilon weight somewhere generates a non-epsilon shift so to speak.
Mostly penises most likely (like any "draw something online" service).
(I am also guilty)
Author here. Glad to see this making the rounds again after a few years. Go science! Support your local climate scientist!
This is very cool. I found shapes that do not work well with the simulation: a very wide and narrow shape (like a needle) oscillates wildly and does not seem to stop or to even slow down.
Got a bit frustrated because I couldn't get anything except a flat surface above the water, then read the tweets below and realised that's the entire point: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362557149147058178.html (Many thanks to Elon for making it impossible to read more than the first tweet on x.com without an account...)
To the author: Would be interesting to store all the shapes people are creating and let us quickly browse through them. Mostly penises most likely (like any "draw something online" service). (I am also guilty)
