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The Batman Equation
- fedorabbit 15y agoonce upon a time, I thought this is how computer generate graphic shapes...
- wisty 15y agoNote, there's even less cerebral things you can draw with polar co-ordinates.
- iwwr 15y agoIs there a way to massage this so that Wolfram Alpha can graph it in whole?
- dlaw 15y agoI must admit that this strikes me as rather dull: make the equation complicated enough and you can obtain any shape you'd like. I would far be more impressed by a simple one-line equation that drew this shape.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoHow long are your lines, how small is your font/letter-spacing .. du-duh! One line!
- BlackJack 15y agoI wonder what the equation would look like if a 3rd dimension was added.
- jcsalterego 15y agoI was expecting: http://bp3.blogger.com/_snss6u0-WRI/RdzBKNfBTtI/AAAAAAAAAH4/BFyaIf4WJvs/s1600-h/batman-proton1.JPG http://bp3.blogger.com/_snss6u0-WRI/RdzBKNfBTtI/AAAAAAAAAH4/...
- alanfalcon 15y agoHuh, I was expecting something like this: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1870 http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1870 Thankfully, this link wasn't quite as depressing as T-Rex's Expected Real Life Batman Generation Rate.
- alecco 15y agoThe original submission at reddit had several interesting threads including strings ready to paste in Mathematica and attempts to run it in WolframAlpha. "Do you like Batman? Do you like math? My math teacher is REALLY cool" http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/j2qjc/do_you_like_batman_do_you_like_math_my_math/ http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/j2qjc/do_you_like_batm... It's shameful of HardOCP and others not to credit the original submitter.
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- skrebbel 15y agothat first answer is basically pretty basic procedural graphics. There's a whole scene of people using smartly combined simple functions to create pretty and/or realistic shapes. Check out 'cdak', a 4kb executable realtime animation for a rather impressive example: http://capped.tv/quite_orange-cdak http://capped.tv/quite_orange-cdak (video) or ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/ized/prods/cdak.zip (4kb windows executable)
- conradev 15y agoHeh, this reminds me of this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuppers_self-referential_formula http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuppers_self-referential_form...
- onions 15y agoThat trick always seemed incomplete to me because the output only contains part of the formula; it's missing the constant that actually encodes most of the information. Has anyone ever made one where the output contains everything you need?
- burgerbrain 15y agoIf you consider outputs for equations other than Cartesian graphs, then Quines should get you what you want. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Quines https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Quines
- onions 15y agoYes, I think a "Cartesian" quine would be pretty tough to create, because you're going from a symbolic representation to an inefficient visual representation. Could a more efficient visual representation solve it? One approach might be to output a bitmap that looks like this: gunzip(########) where ######## is a bitmap representation of the raw input to gunzip.
- svat 15y agoYes! To both. Calling Tupper's formula "self-referential" (which he did not) is essentially cheating: https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/how-does-tuppers-self-referential-formula-work/ https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/how-does-tuppers... But someone has made one where the output contains everything: http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/math-self-reference/ http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/math-self-reference/ A little discussion on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/i75t1/tuppers_formula_popular_topic_here_few_days_ago/ http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/i75t1/tuppers_formula_...
- realou 15y agoThe "batman" image and icons are under IP protection... I wonder if this equation automatically falls under that umbrella. And what about the particular result of that equation , when graphically rendered. Could I sell T-shirts with that equation's rendering on them?
- tedunangst 15y agoEvery image can be rendered by an equation. How do you think JPEG works? Why would this be any different?
- smanek 15y agoAssuming copyright/trademark in place on the image, probably not (although, IANAL - so take the following with an appropriate dose of salt). The short reason why is that bits have color ( http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime for a concrete example.
- iloveyouocean 15y agoI saw this posted on Reddit a few days ago. I briefly considered submitting it here, but thought 'This kind of thing belongs on Reddit, not HN.' But what do you know, here it is with 182 points. Oh well.
- brianbreslin 15y agoHow long before this is converted into css3 ?