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Syntopia
Personal blog · blog.hvidtfeldts.netmathprogramming
Syntopia is a personal blog at blog.hvidtfeldts.net about math and programming. Since 2009, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Distance Estimated 3D Fractals (2011)”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Syntopia, a blog on fractal rendering such as the Mandelbulb, distance estimators and 3D fractals, plus a list of generative art links. HN readers cite it as a reference for these topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Distance Estimated 3D Fractals (2011)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-30
- /index.php/generative-art-links/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-31
What Hacker News says?
Depends what interests you, but some suggestions: - Google "generative art". You'll find lots of images and you can usually work out roughly how they were made. Try to reverse engineer them and create your own facsimile. - Check out links here http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/generative-art-links/ - Manning have a book here: https://www.manning.com/books/generative-art - GRATUITOUS SELF PROMOTION ALERT! I'm wor…
Comment linking /index.php/generative-art-links/
on “Voxel art”Submitted Path Tracing 3D Fractals as a story · 171 points
HN discussionThese are stunning images, what I find fascinating is the similarity between these images and ones found in nature. For example http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/media/mbulb3.jpg looks to me a lot like a virus to me. For a long time fractals have been used to create computer generated landscapes that look real but this takes that technique to a new level.
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on “The Mandelbulb”Submitted The Mandelbulb as a story · 89 points
HN discussionEver since I've discovered 3D fractals, 2D ones simply don't cut it for me anymore. Unfortunately they are much harder to calculate. http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/category/mandelbulb/
Comment linking /index.php/category/mandelbulb/
on “Making a 4K Fractal Movie with Fractal EXtreme”Submitted Grammars for Generative Art as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLong list of generative art links - http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/generative-art-links/ Spirolaterals - easiest and simplest to start with, but can make beautiful structures
Comment linking /index.php/generative-art-links/
on “Programming abstract art”Submitted Distance Estimated 3D Fractals (2011) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can make distance estimators for arbitrary fractals using automatic differentiation. http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/2011/12/distance-estim...
Comment linking /index.php/2011/12/distance-estimated-3d-fractals-vii-dual-numbers/
on “A massive fractal in days, not years [pdf]”Submitted Distance Estimated 3D Fractals as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fragmentarium Version 1.0 (“Cologne”) Released as a story · 1 points
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