What is this?

is it a string?

>>8760163
uwu

>>8760171
Don't answer a question with a question.

>>8760194
but i dont know what it is

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>>8760163
It's basically this, OP

>>8760194

Why not?

>>8760210
WHAT ARE YOU POSTING WHAT IS THIS

I DEMAND ANSWERS

>>8760210
Okay I think I get it. Thanks.

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>>8760219
Well, technically this

>>8760163
It's a like-like.
It eats your shield if it catches you.

>>8760223
l-lewd

>>8760163
>>8760210
>>8760223
surface normals?

>>8760223

I am a sad old man. I have been browsing r9k since its modern "loser" incarnation, at least since early 2011.

This is the single most elegant and abstract representation of pepe and wojak that I have ever seen.

>>8760223
So what properties do these curves have? How are they modeled?

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>>8760236
It's actually quite simple

>>8760238
who are you
WHO ARE YOU

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Sorry guys, I have to leave. Here's a last one, hope it answers your questions

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>topologists masturbating in this thread

>>8760252
YOUR THIRD DIMENSION ISN'T REAL ANYWAY

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This is the best I can do at the moment. I don't know how to do >>8760223 though.

some kind of surface normal

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the "equidistant" gives it away
you've got a curve on a surface, and the curve "above" the surface is the curve you get when you translate each point on the curve by the surface normal at that point, by a constant

honestly, i have no idea what purpose this could have

>>8761312
what's going on here, the angles look more out of whack than if they were surface normals

>>8761609
yeah i was wondering if there are any practical applications

>>8760216
:>==8

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Not OP, but let me start my own little "guess the maths behind this animation" puzzle. Let's start with a nice one.

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>>8761636
Here's a related variant of the previous one.

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>>8761642
And here's one worth meditating about.

What are these made with?

>>8761636
>>8761642
>>8761646
Well it seems all points are moving at the same constant velocity in a straight line, and the shape becomes mirrored. But I have no idea what mathematical process would cause such a thing.

>>8761636
>>8761646
they look like collections of complex zeros

>>8761646
This one looks like the Riemann-Zeta function

>>8760163
Topological pepe

>>8761609
>>8761632
It would be a great way to simulate car mechanics over a bumpy road in a game for an example

>>8761648
You can make all of them in Mathematica

>>8760163
A very rare pepe.

>>8761636

looks like a rotation of the projective plane

>>8760223
>>8760233
My god

>>8760253
There's nothing topologically interesting here

>>8761646
Is it anything to do with this? Where k = 1 / 7 or around there?

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>>8762204
Forgot picture.

>>8762189
Taylor series for 'e'?

>>8762223
No, you idiot. Partial sums in the Taylor series for e^x

>>8761646
Here's something similar.
https://alpha.editor.p5js.org/wernstrom/sketches/r173IGWKx

>>8762229
yeah obviously, forgot ^x

>>8762242
So why'd you bother asking?

>>8762273
As in I meant to say '^x', wouldn't made any sense if it was just one constant without anything variable.

>>8760223
>>8760163

How is the movement of the loop defined?
Is it just random?

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Not really part of this thread, but if you like the animations already posted you might like this one.

>>8763993
ouch that sucks :(

imagine being attached to a star that gets flung at high velocity into the darkest depths of space

>>8760163
The normals of a circle projected on a surface.

>>8764011
What is the circle normal to? The flat surface under the warped surface?

>>8763996
that Image is in dozens of millions of years per Frame ... so "high velocity"

>>8764052
it would be cool to be beings that can experience time that fast though right?

>>8760242
It's in the filename, if you couldn't work it out from the first one its time to stop posting