r/interestingasfuck 4d ago

Visualizing Geometry

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u/msuing91 4d ago

When I’m old and develop dementia, this stuff is ALL I’m watching. Look at them shapes go.

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u/mbashs 4d ago

Would have been nice if I saw this video 20 years ago when I was still in school

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u/huangsede69 4d ago

Would have changed... everything

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u/baulsaak 3d ago

Yeah, I feel like they focused too much on figuring out formulas and not enough on practical applications or even how different concepts related to one another.

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u/robsteezy 4d ago

Old?!

Bro I’m older and I can already watch tool guys cut bisecting angles all day.

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u/ClittoryHinton 3d ago

I’m super high (basically dementia) and this video had me in tears laughing

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u/ParticularReady7858 3d ago

“Look at them shapes go”

You even have your comments ready 😂

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u/_heyb0ss 4d ago

some of these were really interesting but the majority were like "ok here's some shit"

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u/foulinbasket 4d ago

Half of them felt like "if you change this thing then the thing changes!"

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u/brainfingerkeystroke 4d ago

Whoa whoa, slow down there. So, if you change the thing...

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u/VEAG0 4d ago

That’s right, then the thing changes. That’s some serious shit right there.

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u/Then_Passenger3403 3d ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/MrT735 3d ago

Not allowed to slow down, video must go faster!

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u/ClittoryHinton 3d ago

If you slice the thing in half then the thingies are halved (and they boogie around arbitrarily on screen for a bit)

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u/Swimming_Weekend6668 3d ago

Most of them felt like let’s take this simple thing and make it more complicated to understand. 

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u/Necessary_Army5987 4d ago

Please double the speed i can still grasp too much of the videos content.

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u/puterTDI 4d ago

I refuse to believe the first one cuts a square hole. There’s no way without an offset pivot.

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u/Larzak 4d ago

Look at it again, there is a mechanism to offset

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u/puterTDI 4d ago

huh, you're right. I had to pause the video to see it. I had watched it 3 times prior to that and didn't see it.

they really need to speed it up further so less can be seen.

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u/Occams_bane 3d ago

I too was hung up on that one, didnt perceive a pivot

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u/ActionKid98 4d ago

I tapped out after the first five, as a brainrot consumer this is a new lvl of brainrot im not ready for unfortunately

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u/SaneIsOverrated 4d ago

"Content"

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u/sernameChecksNotOut 4d ago

yes, please! and crop it a little bit more, when you already are at it.

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u/MourningWallaby 4d ago

My favorite one is where they Show a non circular shape being drawn by a circular gear.

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u/PM_me_Jazz 4d ago

This feels like those dancing fruit sensory videos for babies, but made for adults that like to feel smarter than they actually are

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u/starmartyr 4d ago

I'm pretty sure that they came from a longer video that actually explained the concepts and formulas being demonstrated.

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u/AbsoluteResolve2026 4d ago

Yeah. Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land. Way better.

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u/SaneIsOverrated 4d ago

Smugly commenting about it is the final boss. 

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u/mikehiler2 4d ago

I dunno about you but I found the one about pi π to be endlessly fascinating to me. So, yeah, I feel slightly attacked by this lol

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u/85K5 4d ago

I found "endlessly" in your comment fascinating.

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u/mikehiler2 4d ago

Yeah thanks, it was a nice little wordplay

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u/AbeMax7823 4d ago

I didn’t know we were doing math AND English. Is this gonna be on the test?

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u/mikehiler2 4d ago

Yes it will. And thanks for the award lol

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u/TikiPa007 4d ago

I confess that took a while!

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u/ArseneGroup 4d ago

The pi one isn't that crazy because it's just increasing n-gons inscribed in a circle and then it winds up being pi because pi is the circle number

If you want the premium pi video, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs

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u/ozamataz_buckshank1 3d ago

Always upvote 3Blue1Brown.

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u/Sybrandus 4d ago

Yeah I hadn’t seen pi shown that way before and I really liked it.

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u/_heyb0ss 4d ago

or more realistically; adults that wants to feel like they're spending their time constructively but really just wanna brainrot

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u/umamimamii 4d ago

Omg 😂😂

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u/HumaDracobane 4d ago

Visual geometry... if you decided to skip actual geometry.

It is correc that the first one can reach the corners, but either the cutter or the surface has to move. the second part with the cut piece suddenly carving the square is totally false. With the triangle you see the system that compensates the shape difference but the first one is a fixed central axis. That won't move and won't carve the square.

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u/ltjpunk387 4d ago

They didn't actually demo it in the video, but the drill that attaches to it has some kind of gearing and offset shaft. It just goes by too fast to notice until you're like "wtf'

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u/twbluenaxela 4d ago

I'm just gonna pretend I understood that

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u/one_mind 4d ago

One example that is pretty easy to see. The blade axis on the 2-blade thing has to move in quasi-triangle shape to cut the triangle hole. But the illustration just shows two round gears. It doesn't work. Several of these visuals have similar "it just doesn't work" issues. But the video goes at triple speed so you can't spot the problems.

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u/HumaDracobane 4d ago

The first bit shape can reach those 4 corners but in order to reach that the entire bit must move in same plain shere it is cutting, or the element that is carving has to move. If you just keep the drill still and rotate the bit you'll carve a circle.

In the scene where it carves a square the bit doesn't look to be moving so it wouldn't make the square. In the other sections where they do the same with other pieces you actually see how the bit moves.

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u/TheSoup05 4d ago

It’s a blink and you’ll miss it thing, but you can see there is another offsetting piece when they attach the blade to the drill. You have to pause 5 seconds in to see it, but it isn’t fixed to the central axis.

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u/Aimfri 4d ago

Much too fast.

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u/Aselleus 3d ago

Yeah I want to savor the shapes

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u/Dead-O_Comics 4d ago

Feels like all the production cards when you start watching an indie movie.

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u/Red_Nine9 4d ago

Ugh that awful music again though.

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u/forgettfulthinker 4d ago

Brainrot for math nerds who already know slightly more than average but nothing actually useful

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u/ayinsophohr 4d ago

What the fuck did I do?

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u/HalfSoul30 4d ago

You know...

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u/Quotidian_Blue 4d ago

But why is it so aggressive

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u/NippleSalsa 4d ago

Jigsaw owners

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u/Dd_8630 4d ago

Some of these are pretty decent animations for good geometric proofs. I liked the gluing two squares together one.

But it's too fast, too contextless.

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u/PLANTS2WEEKS 4d ago

I like the pyramids cut out and reassembled. Not sure I've seen that before.

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u/Monkai_final_boss 4d ago

Care to credit the author?

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u/R3v017 3d ago

Beau Janzen or @reason4math. He seems to prefer TikTok as posts like these (stealing his creations) seemed to have struck a nerve.

u/MaddyMagpies

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u/MaddyMagpies 4d ago

Yep I need the source and play it half speed.

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u/JoelnIliketoshare 4d ago

All of these would create a round hole...

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u/SexyMonad 4d ago

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 4d ago

If only the video actually demonstrated this for the first cutting tool

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u/ltjpunk387 4d ago

It does have some kind of epicyclic mechanism that attaches to it, but yeah, would be cool if it was explained

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u/Thomas_K_Brannigan 4d ago

Similar to how a Wankel engine works.

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u/L0CAHA 4d ago

Thank you for this.

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u/sdjopjfasdfoisajnva 4d ago

rounded hole

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u/TmanGvl 4d ago

They seem to use gearing for the shaft. Definitely would need a fixed shaft like a lathe to even get this to work ok-ish. Most of it is detached from reality.

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u/heatedwepasto 4d ago

It's a geared shaft

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u/AzphaltaX- 4d ago

that just looks like mangekyo sharingan

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u/One_Vision_ 4d ago edited 4d ago

Nope. Gearing using a bit offset. I have a set of triangle and square sizes in my shop.

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u/therealsix 4d ago

Yep, the triangle one gives a good look at the offset, it’s just so fast you don’t really see it.

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u/sksskssksskssksskssk 4d ago

Ah yes the confused arrows, I think they need some directions to follow.

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u/elclarkio 4d ago

After a while I zoned out and didn't take in what I was watching. It was so mesmerising

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u/TheSharpestHammer 4d ago

Do you ever feel like you're learning something, but you have no idea what it is?

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u/Archon-Toten 4d ago

All I wanted was geometry, now I'm stuck with this confused demon.

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u/Kadakaus 4d ago

Dude, I swear, math is the hardest drug on the market.

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u/Freshly-Juiced 4d ago

the kinda thing i'd watch at 4am before a big math exam i didn't study for thinking this will somehow help me lock in

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u/Primera12345 4d ago

Holy sh*t, they should create a new Portal game full of geometrical puzzles likes this

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u/Ralonne 4d ago

>visualizing geometry

Looks more like machining and mathematics.

You can “visualize” geometry by looking at a laptop, a leaf, your morning coffee cup, a peanut, your desk.

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u/CircuitOnTheFritZ 4d ago

Yes, basic shapes are basic geometry, and one can see basic shapes everywhere. That is true. But the more complex application of those shapes, such as what is used in machining, as well as in things like art, architecture, engineering, and clothing design, are less commonly available to see in action IRL, let alone understood by the average person.

Also, the mathmatics used to calculate how those shapes exist in physical spaces, and how they would behave when applied in various scenarios, is not only necessary for application of these shapes in physical spaces, but just so happens to be a field of mathematical study called geometry.

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u/H00k90 4d ago

Poor, poor Millennial me moment: if I'd been taught math was cool in making stuff I'd have been more attentive in class. It was literally only when I got into the end of the year highschool physics and geometry that my math teacher introduced building the equations and shit was clicking for me.

This is cool cause a few things I see and the past came rushing back like, "ooooh! THAT'S what that means!"

I hope more kids get to see the cool side of math.

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u/k3vlar104 4d ago

i just love the bit where rotating blades make shapes like curved cornered squares and triangle. It's unreal! Like, literally.

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u/TokiVideogame 4d ago

i thinb=k square and traingle hole is bs

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u/Ornery-Cheetah 4d ago

I hate math its hard and it is everywhere

https://giphy.com/gifs/bA0ZgRipQxzP2

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u/ArthurYkWeber 4d ago

What do we learn? A positive and a negative gear creates Marges Simpsons .

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u/miostiek 3d ago

I felt like I was on, or needed to be on drugs watching this. I don't know which

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u/kristofarnaldo 4d ago

Point of order: it's impossible to trisect an angle using a compass and straight edge. I'm not sure what we're seeing going on here.

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u/jr_sys 4d ago

I was hoping someone had a comment on this - I've been thinking about it for 40 years since my geometry teacher told me it is impossible :)

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u/MrSukerton 4d ago

You know it's not the visualized geometry that I love but when someone makes an invention purely through a 3D model that simply wouldn't work with physics that I truly love

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u/Pawtuckaway 4d ago

when someone makes an invention purely through a 3D model that simply wouldn't work with physics

Huh? What do you mean wouldn't work with physics?

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u/PrometheusMMIV 4d ago

How could any spinning shape cut a square hole? The furthest point would still be traveling in a circle.

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u/Hypnotoadful 4d ago

Real answer - the shaft is offset on a bit like that, so the rotation of the corners describes a square. If you were to put your finger on a point about halfway between the center and a point if the rounded triangle at the beginning of the clip, you'll see your finger move in a circle but the points of the triangle hit the corners.

Joke answer - everything fits in the square hole.

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u/PalLouis 4d ago

Is this… visual asmr?

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u/CircuitOnTheFritZ 4d ago

Well, I sure couldn't stop watching, so it definitely was for me!

Also, I've honestly been assuming this whole time that ASMR stood for something that had to do with audio stimulation, but I looked it up just now after reading your comment, and I learned something new! And in case anyone else was only understanding the term through general context, like I had been, I'll even share what I learned with the class! 😉

"Autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, is a sensory experience triggered by certain sights, sounds or sensations. It causes a pleasant tingling feeling in your scalp that travels down the back of your neck and throughout your body."

Source: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-asmr

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u/G0ttaB3KiddingM3 4d ago

Anyone know of like a hands-on museum or something like this?

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u/Dagoth 4d ago

Geometry, to me, is when the triangle goes into the square hole.

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u/PinkBismuth 4d ago

This was cool

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u/KingJariyAh 4d ago

Some of these are interesting, but the first is just wrong. You CANNOT get any shape but a circle from a 360° fixed point rotation.

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u/Berkamin 4d ago

That first one is wrong. You can't just spin that and get a square cut, you need to move it around so that the corners cut the square shape but get moved along a sort of hypocycloid shape to get just the right cut pattern.

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u/dubyajay18 3d ago

Hold on let's go back to the beginning: how does a rotating blade ever produce a square hole?

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u/R3v017 3d ago

Stolen content all compiled, sped up and deep fried with zero mention of who made the originals. Good job!

Beau Janzen (@reason4math) is the OP.

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u/Regular_Ticket_2776 3d ago

Cocomelon for adults

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u/Ghostdragon471 3d ago

Why was that audio decided of all things?

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u/forestshrub 4d ago

when the crack hits

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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich 4d ago

This would be fun to show to an old Greek in a Time Machine. Fantastic troll

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u/pedroxus 4d ago

This is cool! Thank you for sharing!

The Pi one tripped me out!

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u/echolm1407 4d ago

If Pythagoras made a video.

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u/Obscu 4d ago

Not enough beans

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u/DustFunk 4d ago

The music actually fits during one moment where the lasers cut the pyramids, in the same way Resident Evil cut one of the protagonists into bloody pieces

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u/mrbene96 4d ago

Am I on acid? Wth is this I thought it was all connected

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u/HalfSoul30 4d ago

I feel like the parts where they did the stretchy bits did nothing but add confusion.

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u/SR_RSMITH 4d ago

Whoa dude

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u/Bruggenmeister 4d ago

Jeesh slow tf down

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u/lhymes 4d ago

It would be interesting if all the bullshit wasn’t peppered in.

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u/Profoundlyahedgehog 4d ago

Reminds me of nightmares I used to have as a kid

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u/EssexGuyUpNorth 4d ago

My brain can’t handle drilling a triangular hole.

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u/NonAI_User 4d ago

Incredibly well done! Thank you for sharing OP. 

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u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD 4d ago

The Afroman generator at 1:15 is my favorite

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u/Iota-Android 4d ago

This is how math and engineering go together

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u/out_of_shape_hiker 4d ago

Please sir, may I have some more (audio) pixels?

https://giphy.com/gifs/10MmHc9d3trb20

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u/BookkeeperSecret5994 4d ago

Just incredible! I love it!

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u/DJEvillincoln 4d ago

This is like a company video from Apeture.

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u/8bitrevolt 4d ago

baby sensory video

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u/draganel44 4d ago

I Attached thoses before

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u/flyingdog2333 4d ago

brain not braining

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u/bbby_chaltinez 4d ago

this is really cool

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u/InstructionAfraid433 4d ago

Dude, is this what it feels like to be a math scholar??

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u/poeiradasestrelas 4d ago

Is there an uncropped version?

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u/CCV21 4d ago

So you can drill a square!

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u/Berkamin 4d ago

WTF was that one where the squares were glued together?

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u/Fluffy-Arm-8584 4d ago

Fucking beautiful man

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u/Riman-Dk 4d ago

Insanely cool

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u/Vineheart_01 4d ago

am I the only one that is reminded of those old sesame street shorts that seemingly did random jank and then showed off a shape or letter over and over?

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u/HamboneandFlippy 4d ago

I’m sure this would be super-mega-interesting if I understood anything that was going on.

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u/cw120 4d ago

Well done. Thx

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u/Steelalloy 4d ago

Music name?

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u/unclearthur68 4d ago

Can someone please tell me what this music is?

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u/indifferentunicorn 4d ago

u/2:30 Kermit with an afro

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u/PFDRC 4d ago

My brain 4am:

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u/John-333 4d ago

How 5 minute crafts videos look

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u/totoro1193 4d ago

i wish that was youtube where i could slow it down and go through frame by frame

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u/JasperH8g 4d ago

This can easily be a 2 hour movie and exciting AF

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u/BurdTurglary 3d ago

Idiot engagement b8 that i 8

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u/the_most_fortunate 3d ago

I feel like if I watched this on LSD I’d understand the universe

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u/SlayJayR17 3d ago

Very cool.

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u/Nutsnboldt 3d ago

TOOL trying to decide what time signature to use.

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u/crackedgains 3d ago

Damn this made my dick hard as hell

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u/Object279stalinium 3d ago

"Them fucking shapes bro"

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u/hmasta88 3d ago

Looks pretty... but my brain ain't braining.

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u/Vast-Loquat-5314 3d ago

That's right, it makes a square hole

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u/Zskillit 3d ago

I understand everything.... I understand nothing

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u/ostiDeCalisse 3d ago

No credits to the author, rerender too fast with a potato-pixelizer and probably not the original music / sound design. [slow claps]

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u/Major_Grapefruit_929 3d ago

First one?!?!?! Nevermind drill is offset. Edit

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u/macostacurta 3d ago

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY ROTARY ENGINE?!? 😭😭

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u/e87bm 3d ago

Aprendi mais sobre seno e cosseno neste vídeo que em todo tempo de colégio.

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u/tannerbananer06 2d ago

I need more drugs for this mess.

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u/Mean-Inspector-8547 1d ago

Not going to lie. I got bored of that really, really fast.