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Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles

72 points • by cebert • last Thursday at 12:03 PM • 9 comments • view on HN

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nomel • today at 9:04 PM

If you put a read head at the tip that that could increment the phase of some circle from reading some dot it previously put down, or some similar scheme, could you make circles Turing complete?

aanet • today at 7:44 PM

This makes me unnecessarily happy and giddy.

I love Fourier series/transforms/DFTs irrationally.

This just makes my heart leap with joy to see creative output with it.

phqb • today at 11:03 AM

Shameless plug: I made this tool years ago (predates AI) that draws arbitrary images using Fourier circles https://phqb.github.io/circle_drawing/.

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tetris11 • today at 2:51 PM

Can't you have another set of circles perpendicular to plane, which encode when the pencil draws, allowing for discontinuous regions?

polotics • today at 5:23 AM

I have a bit of a hard time liking this sentence in an otherwise lovely article: "The velocity is the same as the position but imaginary instead of real."

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TheLegend14 • today at 10:01 AM

Well atoms are circles and llamas are made of atoms so real llamas are also made of circles i mean spheres similar thimg anyway

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