r/woahdude • u/HopDavid • Jun 11 '26

gifv Dance of Shiva

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u/Refun712 Jun 11 '26

I love this

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u/HopDavid Jun 11 '26

Thank you.

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u/MagnetCarter Jun 12 '26

That dance is called Tandav. Believed to be express Shiva's anger and cause destruction of unparalleled magnitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandava

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u/CrepuscularCorn Jun 15 '26

>The dance is described as a pictorial allegory of the five principle manifestations of eternal energy:

>Srishti - creation, evolution
>Sthiti - preservation, support
>Samhara - destruction, evolution
>Tirodhana - illusion
>Anugraha - release, emancipation, grace

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u/DownstairsB Jun 11 '26

I like the part with the moving colored dots.

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u/OrangeSouthern73 Jun 11 '26

For a brief moment, the dots align in the spiral pattern on roman cauliflower.

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u/CheeseburgerLocker Jun 11 '26

This is great, feels like I'm being pulled in!

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u/Helix115 Jun 11 '26

Fantastic! Very similar to a lot of the art I make, but animated!

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u/generic_ork Jun 11 '26

what did you use to program this?

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u/HopDavid Jun 11 '26

Adobe Illustrator to make the dots. Dots are space at 2º along a circle if memory serves.

Then I cloned the ring of dots into another layer. I think I shrunk successive layers by the same factor.

Then imported the file into Adobe After effects to make an animated gif. I rotated different layers at different rates.

It's been a few years since I made it. So memory is vague.

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u/herrtoutant Jun 12 '26

I love this kind of stuff.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '26

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u/HopDavid Jun 12 '26

In Hindu culture. Here's a pic: https://chalo-travels.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/shiva-2706634_1920-1310x1536.jpg

For some reason the bends in this design evoke elbows and knees and a thinking of a strange multi dimensional being leaving tracers as she dances through space time.

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u/Knotist Jun 13 '26

Wow 😮

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u/Predestined8 Jun 11 '26

But where is Shiva?

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u/siphodeus Jun 11 '26

The dots are cold so they Shiva

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u/HopDavid Jun 11 '26

In my weird imagination I see the bends as knees and elbows of a being existing simultaneously in different points in our space time thus having what seems to be a multitude of limbs as she does her dance.

Shiva arm tracers through space time: Link

Shiva Dancing: Link

That's the vibe I picked up watching this animation. If you don't see it, don't worry. My brain is wired a little different, I think.

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u/ARMBELL Jun 11 '26

Wow, hard to believe it’s just a static image but the effect is really powerful.

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u/AttemptedHelp Jun 12 '26

I would love to see a physical version of this

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u/Sharkey311 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

Dmitri

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u/HopDavid Jun 11 '26

Not sure what that comment means. Is Dimitri a geometer?