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3 characters is still less than 280, right? It doesn't look like you're contradicting their claim in any way. Could you elaborate a little bit more. I'm not su

3 characters is still less than 280, right? It doesn't look like you're contradicting their claim in any way. Could you elaborate a little bit more. I'm not sure I understand your point.

leggomylibro 9y ago
I think they mean that libraries like 'ggplot2' and 'dplyr' and 'TurtleGraphics' use a LOT more than 280 lines of code. When people see 'small code generates pretty graphics', they usually don't equate that to, 'a library was used as intended.' They think of projects that use math in interesting ways to wring unexpected results out of very limited conditions. Stuff like this: http://www.ozone3d.net/tutorials/intro_demoscene.php http://www.ozone3d.net/tutorials/intro_demoscene.php It's cool and fun to graph mathematical patterns, but it does seem a little disingenuous to call it "Tiny Art".
- platz 9y ago
  it's tiny because it can be expressed in a tiny respresentation
  - everyone 9y ago
    Ive just come up with a symbol that represents the entire collection of the Louvre.
    - platz 9y ago
      That is a symbol with 0 re-use and therefore 0 abstraction. That is much less interesting than a represtentation that can generalize across a wide range of uses
      - gonvaled 9y ago
        No no, it is actually extremely flexible and reusable: draw("louvre") It has support for lots of collections.
adadad3442 9y ago
It's silly to brag about your minimal code if you use external libraries that contain millions of characters.
- delinhabit 9y ago
  But I don't think that was the point of that article. It says: >> Now that Twitter allows 280 characters, the code of some drawings I have made can fit in a tweet. In this post I have compiled a few of them. It's about a list of code snippets that you can send around on Twitter, that can generate interesting "art". It doesn't claim to be the shortest code that can be used to generate art. It just says it can fit inside a tweet.
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3 characters is still less than 280, right? It doesn't look like you're contradicting their claim in any way. Could you elaborate a little bit more. I'm not sure I understand your point.

leggomylibro 9y ago

I think they mean that libraries like 'ggplot2' and 'dplyr' and 'TurtleGraphics' use a LOT more than 280 lines of code. When people see 'small code generates pretty graphics', they usually don't equate that to, 'a library was used as intended.' They think of projects that use math in interesting ways to wring unexpected results out of very limited conditions. Stuff like this: http://www.ozone3d.net/tutorials/intro_demoscene.php http://www.ozone3d.net/tutorials/intro_demoscene.php It's cool and fun to graph mathematical patterns, but it does seem a little disingenuous to call it "Tiny Art".

platz 9y ago
it's tiny because it can be expressed in a tiny respresentation
- everyone 9y ago
  Ive just come up with a symbol that represents the entire collection of the Louvre.
  - platz 9y ago
    That is a symbol with 0 re-use and therefore 0 abstraction. That is much less interesting than a represtentation that can generalize across a wide range of uses
    - gonvaled 9y ago
      No no, it is actually extremely flexible and reusable: draw("louvre") It has support for lots of collections.

adadad3442 9y ago

It's silly to brag about your minimal code if you use external libraries that contain millions of characters.

delinhabit 9y ago
But I don't think that was the point of that article. It says: >> Now that Twitter allows 280 characters, the code of some drawings I have made can fit in a tweet. In this post I have compiled a few of them. It's about a list of code snippets that you can send around on Twitter, that can generate interesting "art". It doesn't claim to be the shortest code that can be used to generate art. It just says it can fit inside a tweet.

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