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Kevin Wampler <wampler+pov### [at] u washington edu> wrote:
> triple_r wrote:
> > Kevin Wampler <wampler+pov### [at] u washington edu> wrote:
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> >> Hmmm, not sure, maybe the absolute value of the Riemann zeta function?
> >
> > Correct! As much talk as there has been about web comics, I figured someone
> > would recognize it from xkcd:
>
> I mostly based my guess on the strange shape of the far contour, and
> Riemann zeta seemed like the most likely function that would do
> something like that. Now that I see it I have read that xkcd strip
> though, so that was probably kicking around in my subconscious.
>
> I like the image (and Warps) the 3D block rendering adds a nice look to
> the plots (focal blur is a good touch in yours as well).
:\ I'm so out of my league in this forum. (Yeah, I imagined a number once...)
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Kirk Andrews wrote:
> Kevin Wampler <wampler+pov### [at] u washington edu> wrote:
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> :\ I'm so out of my league in this forum. (Yeah, I imagined a number once...)
>
Well, truthfully recognizing a function like that is a bit more like
doing well in a mathematical version of Trivial Pursuit; fun, but not to
be confused with actually knowing anything deep about the topic at hand
(at least in my case).
Also, I like the pun.
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> > Kevin Wampler <wampler+pov### [at] u washington edu> wrote:
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> > :\ I'm so out of my league in this forum. (Yeah, I imagined a number once...)
> >
Yeah, I'm with you. I've been keeping Wolfram's open in another tab while
reading this thread. There's so much to learn and so little time...
--
Sam Bleckley
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triple_r wrote:
> Kevin Wampler <wampler+pov### [at] u washington edu> wrote:
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>> Hmmm, not sure, maybe the absolute value of the Riemann zeta function?
>
> Correct!
I was going to suggest it because it looked familiar, but then I
looked at the image at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function
and decided that perhaps it's not that after all. The ridges looked too
evenly shaped.
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Warp wrote:
> triple_r wrote:
>> Kevin Wampler <wampler+pov### [at] u washington edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmm, not sure, maybe the absolute value of the Riemann zeta function?
>> Correct!
>
> I was going to suggest it because it looked familiar, but then I
> looked at the image at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function
> and decided that perhaps it's not that after all. The ridges looked too
> evenly shaped.
I imagine that this image is from the x >= 0 half plane, and since the
structure that's most obvious in the wikipedia article is for x < 0 it's
reasonable that this image would look different. But yeah, I get your
point, that very same issue is why I was pretty unsure if my guess was
correct.
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Warp <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote:
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> I was going to suggest it because it looked familiar, but then I
> looked at the image at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function
> and decided that perhaps it's not that after all. The ridges looked too
> evenly shaped.
Yes, the real part is from 0 to 2, and the imaginary part from about 20 to 50.
Oh, and sorry for hijacking your thread--I enjoyed your quiz enough to try and
return the favor though.
- Ricky
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Ramdom matrix?
I see a binary 2D matrix, checked in black squares to 0 allways and white
squares distributed randomly beetween 0 or 1.
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"triple_r" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Warp <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote:
> > What is this? Only two-word answers are accepted.
>
> Quick variation if I'm right, completely random if I'm wrong...
>
> - Ricky
Ricky, I liked your variation so much that I made a quick variation of it...
- Rob
"There is no spoon."
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"Robert McGregor" <rob### [at] mcgregorfineart com> wrote:
> Ricky, I liked your variation so much that I made a quick variation of it...
Rob -
And I liked your variation on my variation so much that I made a quick variation
of it. One factor to unite them all...
- Ricky
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> Rob -
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> And I liked your variation on my variation so much that I made a quick variation
> of it. One factor to unite them all...
>
> - Ricky
Haha! This is a "prime" example of how religious zealotry can "spiral" out of
control around "one" small thing, even the smallest of factors... Bravo!
"There is no spoon."
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