Merry Christmas HN. Ever year, the original T * sin(t) Christmas tree gets posted. This year, I wanted to call out my favorite modification by Silvia Hao. It’s beautiful. One year, I’ll try to add to its beauty. But for now, I’ll just appreciate it. She posted it here: https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/175891
I checked the post, but it's from someone who's far more comfortable with Mathematica than I am, so I hope you won't mind my asking about the maths.
First, the T vs. t in T * sin(t) doesn't mean anything, right? Second, the ' in the title T * sin(t)' doesn't belong, right?
Then I think that this is graphing essentially (t * sin(t), t * cos(t), t + something), which is a cone if the something is constant, which I believe it is—and that certainly matches the graph. And the rest is about choosing an aesthetically pleasing step size and accomplishing the lovely twinkling and colors, right?
You still think my comment was about ryeguy instead of the person I replied which is typically how comments flow. If they had clicked the link and read it, they would have seen why ryeguy posted the link that shows the evolution from the ‘original’. I’m really not sure why we’re unable here
To the point, they even admitted “guilty as charged”. I mean, what’s the cause of the lack of comprehension?
To beat this dead horse some more, I *had* clicked the link (how else would I know it was Silvia Hao's version that had been submitted?) and *had* read the username of the commenter of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42506146. What I had *not* read was the username of the submitter, and thus did not realize the commenter and submitter were the same person, which recontextualizes the comment in question from "Personally my favorite version is Silvia Hao's that can be found in this discussion thread" to "This image that I submitted is by Silvia Hao and can be found in this discussion thread".
I went to Hopscotch in Portland with some friends tonight, tried out the "quantum trampoline" [0]... spent most of my time in socks wondering if that was written in plain ol' javascript or p5. Happy Holidays, folks.
The function is neither a drill nor a Christmas tree, but similar to how it happens to look (≈) like a Christmas tree, it also happens to look like a drill. This is what I wanted to point out. It’s a multipurpose function.
block_dagger was making a pun based on the sense of drill as a training exercise. A similar joke went over the heads of nearly everyone on a recent episode of Taskmaster:
