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Rendering a Sierpinski Pyramid in Clojure
- whughes 17y agoMostly unrelated, but I find this disgusting, along with some of the other fractal visualizations I've seen. I don't really have a reason for it; it's just a visceral reaction that makes me cringe. All the little parts and the strange shape.. Does anyone know why this might be the case?
- nopassrecover 17y agoA bad experience with a toy pyramid as a kid? On a more serious note I agree that it is not aesthetically pleasing. I put this down to it not being rendered in a manner that lets us see how the shape works (e.g. lighting, shading etc.) so it just seems artificial making it hard to see what 's going on. I've never seen one of these in 3D before either but in 2D I didn't find it that appealing either because of the way it reduces in size as it repeats fractically - it seems messy.
- mahmud 17y agoIt's because it's ugly; the lines are not anti-aliased there is no sense of depth (the farther parts of the pyramid are not darkened)
- prospero 17y agoThat's a good point about the depth. I've swapped out the pictures for ones with fog enabled, and it looks a lot less like polygon soup. As to the anti-aliasing, if there's a way to turn it on in OS X using JOGL (Java bindings for OpenGL), I haven't found it yet.
- agravier 17y agoIt's likely that you're the only one able to answer that question (if you don't see any psychoanalyst).
- zandorg 17y agoI don't get any sense of feeling uncomfortable. But then, I was watching Commodore 64 demos for most of my early teens.
- ShardPhoenix 17y agoSome people have a similar reaction to porus/holey objects like http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1406/1093460880_2af2500cc8.jpg http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1406/1093460880_2af2500cc8.jp... . It seems common enough that there's probably some instinctive reason for it. The image of the triangle has a kind of similar feel to it.
- lsb 17y agoWhat plant is that? It's repulsively beautiful.
- ShardPhoenix 17y agoA lotus seed pod.
- nopassrecover 17y agoWow that actually causes a mild fear reaction. It's like seeing something with many eyes and historically many-eyed creatures haven't been particularly friendly.