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Published: 2006-07-23 20:11:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 5915; Favourites: 113; Downloads: 123
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Like the root system of a pot bound plant - conforms to the shape of the container and escapes through the drainage holes. Excellent!
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this is ridiculously rad... like organic knotted energy.
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It is very pleasing. The result seems like a strange blending of organic and geometric forms.
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thanks! and yeah that's pretty much exactly how it's made
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I notice go amongst your interests. Is that as in: board, stones?
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as in the only thing other than mathematics which poses a sublime perfection and timeless beauty, yes
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Yes yes.
Do you find any artistic inspiration in it?
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hmm, i don't really regard myself as an artist but rather an art appreciator, since i mostly make technically good pictures of beautiful things that already exist. i'm getting better at it, so it's definitely a skill, but increasingly it appears to be a different thing from true artistic vision.
having said that, there's of course a lifetime's worth of inspiration to be found in the game; philosophically it's a microcosm of life - one can learn many of its lessons through playing go 
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I suppose this isn't really a forum for go, but I am an enthusiast myself and I agree with all you said.
I am of the opinion that it takes artistry and craftsmanship to produce works of enduring value. Would the old masters be so well regarded if they had been technically weak?
I haven't really made use of go artistically either though the lines and circles are such basic forms they appear everywhere. (I see black and white stones in this piece).
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interesting! would like to see the formula for that one
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oh, it's long lost i'm afraid; but i can say, it was based off apolonian circle inversions, mixed with euhm other stuff... that basic formula will give you lots of results like this
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Very intriguing design. It makes me think of two trees that grew togethor. Very nice piece
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appreciated
thx for the watch also! lately i've only been releasing stuff to my scraps though, very few polished works and lots of test-programming...
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That is too bad about the parameters... But oh well
Concerning the watch, judging from your pieces I could stand to learn a lot from what you do, and I also like what you have already done, so it's really my pleasure
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best way to find out about the stuff is to ask, cuz usually i don't spam technical details here and i anyway teach a lot of coding stuff online. hell this is deviantart, not deviantcode
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lol good point. Actually, I was going to note you, but wasn't quite sure what really to ask. When you say "teach a lot of coding stuff online", do you mean formerly as in a class, or as in chat/e-mail assistance?
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i used to teach formally, at school as extra classes and later outside of school for schoolgoers, but now just online to my little cult of graphics coding zombies. lol.
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Cool. When I actually know some sort of coding, I'll have to join the cult
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thankye
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Cool! You'll have to let me know
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fankye
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I love how delicate it is... that must have taken a long time to render!
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thanks
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hey how did you do that? what's the maths?
the non-maths whisper "nice" in my brain, so my hand is sent a nervous impulse and the mouse clicks on "fav"
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circle inversion:
[link] (another fractal)
[link] (much more info on the geometry)
thanks for the fav! of course besides the fractal iteration there's also plenty maths in the various rendering aspects btw, that's raw output
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no, I don't see it.. how many circles did you invert? or did you invert not only circles?
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i only inverted in 4 circles for that image if i recall correctly (i have a key that makes random symmetric locations for the circles), but the "organic" look comes from making small distortions to the point; it's just an iterated function system randomly choosing between 4 circle inversions and a little perturbation function.
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thanks
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This looks really amazing, I love how wispy and delicate it is, definitely a
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thanks
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I'll keep that in mind, and you're very very welcome
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thanks
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np, just note me an email address, i couldn't find it on your blog...
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