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Koch Snowflake

46 points by the-mitr 3y ago

rnk 3y ago
That was fun, kind of like a scientific american martin gardner column. When I was but a wee lad I would visit my grandfather who had a subscription (and actually read) Sci Am and he would share interesting things with me, and implement some of them on his early home computer. Those were lovely days.
marcod 3y ago
I was worried this would be a political post :p
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AtlasBarfed 3y ago
infinite perimeter, finite area
LeonB 3y ago
Ah, this reminds me — for a very long time there was a page called “The Sierpinski Triangle Page to End Most Sierpinski Triangle Pages” - which was a stunning tour de force, it seemingly went forever, covering every possible way to create, consider, discover, unveil or rediscover the Sierpinski triangle (and its many, many variants) It was here: https://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm https://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm Recently - in an internet mystery to end most internet mysteries - the page has gone off line. I don’t know how to contact the author to provide assistance, care, anything that is needed. There are copies in the archive.org - though I’m not sure the embedded code demo will work there. https://web.archive.org/web/20230317130700/https://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20230317130700/https://www.often...
- unwind 3y ago
  I clicked around, it seemed to work (I was not surprised, the Internet Archive does not fsck around). The loading experience for the page was somewhat horrible though with a large of number of warnings. And I can't reload it, now it seems dead. Perhaps something does fsck with the IA, sometimes.
bitwize 3y ago
I remember, back in my 20s, writing a Scheme program that output a PostScript program to draw a Koch snowflake. I was so chuffed to open it up in GhostScript and see it in all its glory.
- gpvos 3y ago
  Should be possible to do that entirely in Postscript. Hmm, maybe I've got a project for this weekend now.
virgildotcodes 3y ago
The wikipedia links on every other word are hilarious.

46 points by the-mitr 3y ago

rnk 3y ago

That was fun, kind of like a scientific american martin gardner column. When I was but a wee lad I would visit my grandfather who had a subscription (and actually read) Sci Am and he would share interesting things with me, and implement some of them on his early home computer. Those were lovely days.

marcod 3y ago

I was worried this would be a political post :p

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AtlasBarfed 3y ago

infinite perimeter, finite area

LeonB 3y ago

Ah, this reminds me — for a very long time there was a page called “The Sierpinski Triangle Page to End Most Sierpinski Triangle Pages” - which was a stunning tour de force, it seemingly went forever, covering every possible way to create, consider, discover, unveil or rediscover the Sierpinski triangle (and its many, many variants) It was here: https://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm https://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm Recently - in an internet mystery to end most internet mysteries - the page has gone off line. I don’t know how to contact the author to provide assistance, care, anything that is needed. There are copies in the archive.org - though I’m not sure the embedded code demo will work there. https://web.archive.org/web/20230317130700/https://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20230317130700/https://www.often...

unwind 3y ago
I clicked around, it seemed to work (I was not surprised, the Internet Archive does not fsck around). The loading experience for the page was somewhat horrible though with a large of number of warnings. And I can't reload it, now it seems dead. Perhaps something does fsck with the IA, sometimes.

bitwize 3y ago

I remember, back in my 20s, writing a Scheme program that output a PostScript program to draw a Koch snowflake. I was so chuffed to open it up in GhostScript and see it in all its glory.

gpvos 3y ago
Should be possible to do that entirely in Postscript. Hmm, maybe I've got a project for this weekend now.

virgildotcodes 3y ago

The wikipedia links on every other word are hilarious.