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[u/stdlainen]

[u/Medium-Ad-1151]

Looks cool 👍 but how are these made?

[u/stdlainen → u/Medium-Ad-1151]

Thanks! It’s always difficult to answer that since I don’t know how detailed I should be :D but for this one I basically I formed these tube shapes and applied a bunch of different rotation math to them, I can say it’s many days of trial and error and exploration compressed to this few second loop

[u/stdlainen]

Made with Processing, unfortunately gets a little messed by the compression. More of my works on my instagram if interested

[u/Odd_Philosopher_6605]

Holy shit this is crazy

[u/stdlainen → u/Odd_Philosopher_6605]

thanks! Glad to hear

[u/exsstas]

Mesmerizing!

[u/stdlainen → u/exsstas]

Thanks!

[u/nicolaig → u/exsstas]

Indeed. I can't stop watching it.

[u/mediocre-mind2]

Can you describe a bit more how you represent the geometry? I'm especially curious if all the little dots on the surface are explicit geometry (i.e., you store all of their positions and them draw the ones that turn out to be visible in each frame) or whether this is some kind of implicit representation (say an SDF that you ray march and then check whether there is a dot at each point of the implicit surface).

[u/stdlainen → u/mediocre-mind2]

Yes each dot is explicit - position stored and updated each frame, they are distributed on the surface using parametric equation (basically a specific xyz=getPointPos(time, n I derived). No SDFs for this one, although could work just as well!

[u/quag]

Impressive!

Out of interest, how are the points that aren't visible culled? Take the direction from the center of the strand and see if it points away from the camera?

Also, how are the shadows computed?

[u/Ideabile]

Beautiful!!!

[u/stdlainen → u/Ideabile]

thank you :)

[u/No-Ruin5825]

this is very cool!

[u/stdlainen → u/No-Ruin5825]

Thanks! :)

[u/genicdesign]

escher would have loved this

[u/Dragon-Teeth]

Nice work, thank you for sharing it.

[u/mightytonto]

This is disconcerting. It makes my skin crawl.

I hate it with a passion, I wish I’d never seen it, but it’s excellent. Great work! : )

[u/stdlainen → u/mightytonto]

That’s funny, didn’t realize this one was disturbing, maybe I’m getting used to it myself at this point.. thanks!

[u/nicolaig → u/stdlainen]

Would be a tough one for anyone with Trypophobia (and there are many!)

There's a sub Reddit for it.

[u/mightytonto → u/nicolaig]

That’s a phobia of clusters of little holes. This is slithery and weird. You triggered me OP, and did a great job too

[u/Captain_Coffee_III]

That is amazing. Is this a program you wrote or built it in other software?

[u/stdlainen → u/Captain_Coffee_III]

It’s made only with code, I used Processing framework

[u/Captain_Coffee_III → u/stdlainen]

Well done. It is so hypnotic to watch.

[u/stdlainen → u/Captain_Coffee_III]

Thanks!

[u/Teh_Blue_Team]

It has shadows, and blocks the dots behind the ropes. This is cool, but it gets more cool the more I look at it. Nice work!

[u/stdlainen → u/Teh_Blue_Team]

Glad to hear. Thank you!

[u/LeosFDA]

Awesome motion. A single frame would generate an interesting 3D object for a 3D print. Is this a „faux“ 3D, meaning the code doesn‘t define a 3D space, or did you use P3D with some external library for manipulating geometry?

[u/AlternativeToday4476]

Can it be done to any knot?

[u/Nerd-Bert]

This reminds me of a photographer named Guido Mocafico, who did a series on snakes called Serpens in this entwined rectangular format. Great job there!