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What can I say, words have meaning. I see that you speak the lingo of your peers, when you write about Rust, Rick & Morty, KYC/AML, SSRI, etc. Fluid mechanics a

What can I say, words have meaning. I see that you speak the lingo of your peers, when you write about Rust, Rick & Morty, KYC/AML, SSRI, etc. Fluid mechanics also has a lingo, simple as that. If you write a 10 page article about using some-framework-or-other, and you invent your own terminology and can't even be bothered write the name correctly of what you're writing about, that's not a good sign in my book. Doesn't matter when it was invented/developed/released. And that's on top of the plainly wrong statements in the article.

127 5y ago
Mathematicians like analytical approach. Technical problems like visualizing water can have many more solutions from all kinds of angles. Admonishing people for taking a creative approach is petty, in such as you lose the goal and make the means your goal. I happen to be a technical artist, and the first rule of technical art is: cheat. If this upsets physicists and mathematicians, they completely miss the point of the entire endeavor. Math and physics are merely tools to achieve the end result, not a goal unto themselves.
- bernulli 5y ago
  So, the fact that the faces I draw look like they went through a blender does not mean that I haven't studied drawing enough, it's just proof that I am this generation's Picasso and everyone petty enough to not recognize my genius is simply not acknowledging my creativity? Amazing! After all, was there ever a single serious artist who would go so low as to study anatomy, optics, geometry, perspective, architecture, etc. ? I'll take a wild guess here that your technical artistry isn't in the field of fluid mechanics. There is a whole, very mature, very developed, field of fluid dynamics for visualizations out there. Just check out what people present at SIGGRAPH every year. It's amazing. They know exactly what they're doing. The thing with the visualization of many physical systems is that humans are really good at spotting discrepancies, e.g. if things don't bounce off well, or the smoke looks like honey - then it just looks really bad (like my blended face drawings) - but producing bad results doesn't automatically make me a great artist.
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  - 127 5y ago
    Human visual perception doesn't need physical accuracy to be fooled. Often it can only be a hindrance.

127 5y ago

Mathematicians like analytical approach. Technical problems like visualizing water can have many more solutions from all kinds of angles. Admonishing people for taking a creative approach is petty, in such as you lose the goal and make the means your goal. I happen to be a technical artist, and the first rule of technical art is: cheat. If this upsets physicists and mathematicians, they completely miss the point of the entire endeavor. Math and physics are merely tools to achieve the end result, not a goal unto themselves.

bernulli 5y ago
So, the fact that the faces I draw look like they went through a blender does not mean that I haven't studied drawing enough, it's just proof that I am this generation's Picasso and everyone petty enough to not recognize my genius is simply not acknowledging my creativity? Amazing! After all, was there ever a single serious artist who would go so low as to study anatomy, optics, geometry, perspective, architecture, etc. ? I'll take a wild guess here that your technical artistry isn't in the field of fluid mechanics. There is a whole, very mature, very developed, field of fluid dynamics for visualizations out there. Just check out what people present at SIGGRAPH every year. It's amazing. They know exactly what they're doing. The thing with the visualization of many physical systems is that humans are really good at spotting discrepancies, e.g. if things don't bounce off well, or the smoke looks like honey - then it just looks really bad (like my blended face drawings) - but producing bad results doesn't automatically make me a great artist.
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- 127 5y ago
  Human visual perception doesn't need physical accuracy to be fooled. Often it can only be a hindrance.