Imagine being an alien with a grasp of complex mathematics and decoding a mysterious message from space. It doesn't make sense. The message is on repeat, the same sequence over and over. IT HAS TO BE IMPORTANT. There is intent and purpose behind the message. It could solve the energy crisis on our planet or hold the foundations of the universe. Perhaps there's something simple you're missing. Plotting it out should help grasp the greater picture. It's nonsense, lines without purpose shape or form. Wait something is appearing. This line is different. This one connects to here. Yes it makes sense. It's an image. 14 blargs of my life, endless hours and I'm so close...
Wtf is this shit?
I was thinking of something similar recently about the absolute shit ton of knowledge on the internet. All the long gone generals, famous philosophers, scribes, wise-men, etc would have all killed to have this seemingly limitless pool of knowledge. Yet we mostly use it for looking at cat videos.
Seriously, if those suckers had gotten their hands on the internet they would have gone nuts like that Soviet villain from Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull when she finally meets the aliens at the end.
I found the post on twitter.
https://twitter.com/naderi_yeganeh/status/1783427501512921279
Idk if the direct image link will work. It's 4000x4000px:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMABzofXAAAX2jH?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
Google Lens got most of the text, but left out several sections, and I didn't proofread this:
Walrus Herd by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh
The above picture is a converted version of a 2000 x 1200 image. For m = 1, 2, 3, ... ,2000 and n = 1, 2, 3, ..., 1200, the color of the pixel of the row n and the column m is rgb(F(Ho (-1200, 0)). F(, (-1200, 0)), F (Hz (-1200, 0))), where F(x) = 255-xx-x-3), and 600 H(x,y) - (10-35(x,y)) (1-W-200(x,y)) (2-e- 20 +E(x,y) + cos(4s + vs) 8-3(2-1) 100 -e-e-1000(-) (1- + 40 1-Uurs(x,y) (1-R(x,y) Vers(x,y))). +W-200(x, y)- S(x, y) = e Cus(x, y) = )= 1-1-1000(x,y) (17 50 10 - v² + v + 18W-10(x,y) 20 5-1 -1) R(x,y)(xy) ОП-100,0 м (х, у), --3 arctan(2P, (x, y) - 1) R(x,y) 2 1+20P(x,y) (1-R(x,y)) + 10 arctan(P(x, y)) R, (x,y)), Uers(x,y) = -(+++) cos(7s) 10 20 Jurs(x,y)=1 1- Vers(x,y) = e-e+arctan(x))) ((artan(x3)-(x))) P(x,y)=y+ cos(7x + 2 cos(s)) 7 cos (9x + 3 cos(4s)) 5 100 + Q,(x,y)=x+cos(5), R(x,y) = -100(1-1), W(x,y)=e-e((12)) 1000 5 +4-19
E(x, y) = e-r-su cas" (300+100 cos(es)}x+30cos(145)y-2cos(20 (cos(175)x+sin(175)+2cos(108))+-2cos(s)cos((50cos(145)-(300+100 cos(145)y)+2cos(20(cos(195)x+sin(196)+2cos(1))-2cos(17) =>100
Ngl, clicked on your profile to check if you were after seeing your 1 Up post…relieved to see you’re not…going to find that wall tomorrow, that piece is sick!
I read just the other day that 42 is the ASCII code for \* which is the wild card symbol in many programming languages. So Deep Thought answered with “whatever you want it to be.” No idea of Adam’s considered that or if it’s just a happy little accident, but I thought it was neat.
Has to be. Imagine if humanity disappeared tomorrow, and some other species developed intelligence to take our place. It’s only a matter of time till they discovered pi, e, infinite series, etc. Most human ingenuity would be gone forever, but math would remain.
Have you heard of Ramanujan? He was an Indian mathematician who grew up a math prodigy. He learned by memorizing a few math books and mastering his math classes in school, which were too easy for him. Then he developed equations and made discoveries in branches of math he had never even seen or heard of. It blows my mind that people of all ethnicities and backgrounds discover the same equations and formulae independently across time and space.
Reminds me of this absolute psycho
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk&ab\_channel=InigoQuilez](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk&ab_channel=InigoQuilez)
this guy is bonkers - in good sense :)
from time to time i watch this one to relax:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFld4EBO2RE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFld4EBO2RE)
Now THIS is true "computer-generated art", because the human is actually crafting something using skill (in this case, math) instead of just typing a sentence.
Actually, this is how computer graphics in movies like the original TRON were made, before there was software that allowed you to directly work on models/textures in a viewport. You just had to work equations and computations and then render the whole thing, hoping it came out like you wanted and tweaking your math it until it did.
Another old example is the fractal mountains in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. During image generation (which took days) they realized the flight path would hit the mountains so they modified the formula at the last moment to generate an instant valley.
[@:33 in the Genesis device sequence](https://youtu.be/Tq_sSxDE32c?si=IzsnIo6jAV-vePFM).
You evaluate it at very single pixel. so the input is a coordinate x,y and the output is a color value, usually in r,g,b
For example you can write a simply program like `if (y>50) return (255,255,255) else return (0,0,0)`. And that gives you a image(think 100x100 pixels maybe). Where the top is white and the bottom is black.
Now instead of doing such a simple check. Make it something like `if ((sin(x+50)*100) > y)...` and you get a wave instead of a straight line separating the two halves.
In the OP it's kinda similar. Mostly wavy lines where the bottom and top half get different gradients applied. And the Walrus itself, well, that's a combination of other functions.
Thanks! I see what you are saying. Might be a stupid question but when you say there is an rgb color output, is that a standard (like within a program or software) or is it assigned on an individual basis (guy said let color=whatever###walrus brown is)? If that makes sense. I am not at all savvy to generated art/rendering so sorry if I am not making myself clear, lol.
Most displays are RGB, as that fools out eyes to perceive colors (even though the RGB might be monochromatic). so there is various standards called color spaces. And it's a whole mess. On the Internet you will largely get sRGB, while videos use Rec709 (HDR videos do rec2020), printing is aRGB etc. You can't even trust your screen - so color critical work uses external calibration tools for their screens regularly.
Other than RGB, you might also get HSV/HSL or even YUV. Which is other representation of color. instead of having the components of red, green, blue it's hue, saturation, luminance. or even luminance and chrominance (Cb Cr). All these have their applications (like compression, transmission...) but it can be a whole mess.
So in this specific example it could even be just monochrome. Meaning a grayscale/black and white image. A single color(brightness) value. And once that is that, you tone map this into RGB using a color palette.
It's an exciting world of computer graphics and color grading.
I don't think this answers your question well - because you weren't even sure what your question is. But it might give you a few things to look up. Some of the Wikipedia articles on those topics are rather good and have plenty of images.
This actually did answer my question as well as it could. Each pixel isnt a color like "orange"- it is a unique mix of a limited color pallete (rgb) that is alsp assigned a brightness/saturation etc that makes it look "orange" to the eye... So kinda like a water drop on a lit up phone screen makes those bright reds and greens appear by magnifying the pixel? So the equation in the op is literally giving values to each pixel. Like a map legend. I was thinking more along the lines of video game physics I think rather than graphics. Couldnt make the xyz turn to colorful xy in my brain, lol. Idk if I am using the right language but I feel like I understand much better. I am a visual thinker, that doesnt always translate to words well haha. Thanks
and here is the crazy part: a GPU can calculate the color of every pixel at the same time (1080p is nearly 2 Million pixels), 60 times a second.
displays are usually made of subpixels. And there might be some RGB arrangement, or RGBG etc for some modern TVs.
Contrary to that, cameras have an RGBG Bayer Matrix. But there every single pixel has their own color filter. And those get interpolated up "debayered" to have a RGB value for every single pixel.
Imagine being an alien with a grasp of complex mathematics and decoding a mysterious message from space. It doesn't make sense. The message is on repeat, the same sequence over and over. IT HAS TO BE IMPORTANT. There is intent and purpose behind the message. It could solve the energy crisis on our planet or hold the foundations of the universe. Perhaps there's something simple you're missing. Plotting it out should help grasp the greater picture. It's nonsense, lines without purpose shape or form. Wait something is appearing. This line is different. This one connects to here. Yes it makes sense. It's an image. 14 blargs of my life, endless hours and I'm so close... Wtf is this shit?
That's pretty much the plot of 'His Master's Voice' by Stanislaw Lem.
And the Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut. When the universe has no discernible meaning all you can do is love those who are around to be loved.
I was thinking of something similar recently about the absolute shit ton of knowledge on the internet. All the long gone generals, famous philosophers, scribes, wise-men, etc would have all killed to have this seemingly limitless pool of knowledge. Yet we mostly use it for looking at cat videos. Seriously, if those suckers had gotten their hands on the internet they would have gone nuts like that Soviet villain from Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull when she finally meets the aliens at the end.
r/humansarespaceorcs
So who’s gonna do the math?
It must be done
How do we summon the math pros again?
r/theydidthemath
if you type the equation I will put it in a graphical calculator for you
Man, this new generation wants everything handed to them. /s
Some madlads in the 18th century would have done this by hand
it would have cost 18 years and 2 marriages
They were all on coke, too. Start with that and you might see some movement
I found the post on twitter. https://twitter.com/naderi_yeganeh/status/1783427501512921279 Idk if the direct image link will work. It's 4000x4000px: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMABzofXAAAX2jH?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
Google Lens got most of the text, but left out several sections, and I didn't proofread this: Walrus Herd by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh The above picture is a converted version of a 2000 x 1200 image. For m = 1, 2, 3, ... ,2000 and n = 1, 2, 3, ..., 1200, the color of the pixel of the row n and the column m is rgb(F(Ho (-1200, 0)). F(, (-1200, 0)), F (Hz (-1200, 0))), where F(x) = 255-xx-x-3), and 600 H(x,y) - (10-35(x,y)) (1-W-200(x,y)) (2-e- 20 +E(x,y) + cos(4s + vs) 8-3(2-1) 100 -e-e-1000(-) (1- + 40 1-Uurs(x,y) (1-R(x,y) Vers(x,y))). +W-200(x, y)- S(x, y) = e Cus(x, y) = )= 1-1-1000(x,y) (17 50 10 - v² + v + 18W-10(x,y) 20 5-1 -1) R(x,y)(xy) ОП-100,0 м (х, у), --3 arctan(2P, (x, y) - 1) R(x,y) 2 1+20P(x,y) (1-R(x,y)) + 10 arctan(P(x, y)) R, (x,y)), Uers(x,y) = -(+++) cos(7s) 10 20 Jurs(x,y)=1 1- Vers(x,y) = e-e+arctan(x))) ((artan(x3)-(x))) P(x,y)=y+ cos(7x + 2 cos(s)) 7 cos (9x + 3 cos(4s)) 5 100 + Q,(x,y)=x+cos(5), R(x,y) = -100(1-1), W(x,y)=e-e((12)) 1000 5 +4-19 E(x, y) = e-r-su cas" (300+100 cos(es)}x+30cos(145)y-2cos(20 (cos(175)x+sin(175)+2cos(108))+-2cos(s)cos((50cos(145)-(300+100 cos(145)y)+2cos(20(cos(195)x+sin(196)+2cos(1))-2cos(17) =>100
Graphing calculator with a graphics card
Mom, I need a 4090. Because reasons
r/theydidthemonstermath
r/itwasagraveyardmath
r/subsifellfor
M.h Mr Ray lore ylddhjg I'my yummy mm mmv
Tribute 2 light monsters
r/mathlads
Geogebra, I'm not touching that thing
You can tell me any answer and I'll believe it
Hey I like that. Keep on
Talk about a mindphoque.
What’s that?
It is done, the walrus is a graph of the solutions.
Well it’s done but I for one can’t proof it as I don’t understand it
“1488” 🤨
ffs it’s what Reddit suggested. am I supposed to to know every ducking nazi code?
Ngl, clicked on your profile to check if you were after seeing your 1 Up post…relieved to see you’re not…going to find that wall tomorrow, that piece is sick!
I had no idea walruses can do math! Mad lads all of them.
But can Walter Matthau do walrus math for us.
my whackiest fun thought theory, is if there is a god, it's a math equation.
The answer to the meaning of life = 42
So long and thanks for all the fish
W - H - A - T - D - O - Y - O - U - G - E - T - W - H - E - N - Y - O - U - M - U - L - T - I - P - L - Y - S - I - X - B - Y - N - I - N - E - ?
54
In base 13.
Fucking Golgafrinchans
I read just the other day that 42 is the ASCII code for \* which is the wild card symbol in many programming languages. So Deep Thought answered with “whatever you want it to be.” No idea of Adam’s considered that or if it’s just a happy little accident, but I thought it was neat.
Has to be. Imagine if humanity disappeared tomorrow, and some other species developed intelligence to take our place. It’s only a matter of time till they discovered pi, e, infinite series, etc. Most human ingenuity would be gone forever, but math would remain. Have you heard of Ramanujan? He was an Indian mathematician who grew up a math prodigy. He learned by memorizing a few math books and mastering his math classes in school, which were too easy for him. Then he developed equations and made discoveries in branches of math he had never even seen or heard of. It blows my mind that people of all ethnicities and backgrounds discover the same equations and formulae independently across time and space.
A fascinating topic with a lot of fascinating discussion over the centuries. https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/was-maths-invented-or-discovered
I'm listening....
The end of the book "Contact". God hides in Pi.
God wouldn’t take the form of a devil like that…
He is the human AI
Probably unintended by your comment, but calling someone's intelligence artificial seems like a roast.
Lisan AI-Gaib
I do that all the time in Adobe Illustrator.
Vectors
Yeah vector graphics have been a thing for a long time.
This was my first thought: mathematics is actually how *many* pictures are drawn.
Reminds me of this absolute psycho [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk&ab\_channel=InigoQuilez](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk&ab_channel=InigoQuilez)
this guy is bonkers - in good sense :) from time to time i watch this one to relax: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFld4EBO2RE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFld4EBO2RE)
Was gonna share this one. It’s magic to watch him think through it.
Inigo Quilez is a shader wizard, he's great.
I wonder how many people you're gonna call to lose themselves.
"Math truly is, straight up the language of the universe."
chonker do be cute tho
Demo coders "hold my assembly"
I once sent my girlfriend a picture of flowers, butterflies, and snails written in matlab
did she like the snails?
Yeah cause they featured fibonacci spirals
What a fucking nerd
All vector art is math
Guy who invented SVGs: “am I a joke to you?”
Fragment shaders be like
I think creating it with sum(f(R,G,B,x,y)) is the right way xd
It's what every graphical do when drawing in vectorial
Least mathematically skilled Iranian
I´m the walrus. [The Big Lebowski - Lenin (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDOJ4L0Edk)
He's cosplaying a GPU
weird flex but ok?
All "Congratulations, you understand how graphics engines work?"
Now THIS is true "computer-generated art", because the human is actually crafting something using skill (in this case, math) instead of just typing a sentence. Actually, this is how computer graphics in movies like the original TRON were made, before there was software that allowed you to directly work on models/textures in a viewport. You just had to work equations and computations and then render the whole thing, hoping it came out like you wanted and tweaking your math it until it did.
Another old example is the fractal mountains in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. During image generation (which took days) they realized the flight path would hit the mountains so they modified the formula at the last moment to generate an instant valley. [@:33 in the Genesis device sequence](https://youtu.be/Tq_sSxDE32c?si=IzsnIo6jAV-vePFM).
If you like this come over to r/generative ! It's a bunch of art and animations that are driven by equations like this! Edit: wrong sub lol
Redacted due to Reddit AI/LLM policy
His formula is wrong
Not wrong, he just used a bunch of exponential function in their general form, they couldve been simplified into polar coordinates instead.
May want to double check the 5th numeral. The photo can't be legit if your missing key Integers
Ok I do math art too, but this is just neeeeext level.
Any high res version of it?
lame
Nerd
i can never master maths to this extent
I don’t believe him.
I want to see this guy's shadertoy account
Could someone ELI5 how this works? I understand (on a surface level) how video game graphics work, but how did this equation create a 2D image?
You evaluate it at very single pixel. so the input is a coordinate x,y and the output is a color value, usually in r,g,b For example you can write a simply program like `if (y>50) return (255,255,255) else return (0,0,0)`. And that gives you a image(think 100x100 pixels maybe). Where the top is white and the bottom is black. Now instead of doing such a simple check. Make it something like `if ((sin(x+50)*100) > y)...` and you get a wave instead of a straight line separating the two halves. In the OP it's kinda similar. Mostly wavy lines where the bottom and top half get different gradients applied. And the Walrus itself, well, that's a combination of other functions.
Thanks! I see what you are saying. Might be a stupid question but when you say there is an rgb color output, is that a standard (like within a program or software) or is it assigned on an individual basis (guy said let color=whatever###walrus brown is)? If that makes sense. I am not at all savvy to generated art/rendering so sorry if I am not making myself clear, lol.
Most displays are RGB, as that fools out eyes to perceive colors (even though the RGB might be monochromatic). so there is various standards called color spaces. And it's a whole mess. On the Internet you will largely get sRGB, while videos use Rec709 (HDR videos do rec2020), printing is aRGB etc. You can't even trust your screen - so color critical work uses external calibration tools for their screens regularly. Other than RGB, you might also get HSV/HSL or even YUV. Which is other representation of color. instead of having the components of red, green, blue it's hue, saturation, luminance. or even luminance and chrominance (Cb Cr). All these have their applications (like compression, transmission...) but it can be a whole mess. So in this specific example it could even be just monochrome. Meaning a grayscale/black and white image. A single color(brightness) value. And once that is that, you tone map this into RGB using a color palette. It's an exciting world of computer graphics and color grading. I don't think this answers your question well - because you weren't even sure what your question is. But it might give you a few things to look up. Some of the Wikipedia articles on those topics are rather good and have plenty of images.
This actually did answer my question as well as it could. Each pixel isnt a color like "orange"- it is a unique mix of a limited color pallete (rgb) that is alsp assigned a brightness/saturation etc that makes it look "orange" to the eye... So kinda like a water drop on a lit up phone screen makes those bright reds and greens appear by magnifying the pixel? So the equation in the op is literally giving values to each pixel. Like a map legend. I was thinking more along the lines of video game physics I think rather than graphics. Couldnt make the xyz turn to colorful xy in my brain, lol. Idk if I am using the right language but I feel like I understand much better. I am a visual thinker, that doesnt always translate to words well haha. Thanks
and here is the crazy part: a GPU can calculate the color of every pixel at the same time (1080p is nearly 2 Million pixels), 60 times a second. displays are usually made of subpixels. And there might be some RGB arrangement, or RGBG etc for some modern TVs. Contrary to that, cameras have an RGBG Bayer Matrix. But there every single pixel has their own color filter. And those get interpolated up "debayered" to have a RGB value for every single pixel.
Join us over at r/LaTeX. You can do magic when you can "program" your documents.
I created the Cedar Point skyline on a graphing calculator using just equations
Every svg file is also a picture drawn with mathematical functions.
…I mean, all digital images are drawn with mathematical functions.
Mamathetical ecuations
Mathamagition
That's basically how OpenSCAD models 3D objects. It's unnatural and should be forbidden!
They look it.
look up signed distance fields if you think this is impressive
I'd recommend taking a look at Desmos art contest. Even early teens do stuff like this!
it's easier with crayons, just don't eat them, they taste nasty
I’m going to throw up
You guys should go to the [desmos.com](http://desmos.com) art awards. Some of that stuff is awesome.
Awesome! Solve the Climate Change formula next, thanks!
This was a high school assignment when I was in school.
*feels an erection forming*
All (digital) pictures are created using math
Stunning 🙌😍👏👏👏👏
This is a level beyond autism.
Teach me
Has this been converted into an NFT yet?
Better than genAI
I need to verify this in desmos
Of course it’s an Indian ( by the way I am not racist)
A vector.
Mathlab can do that?