What Kind of Equation Could I Possibly Employ?

[bcholmes]

I wish I could convey the strange joy that I'm having with this coding project. Mostly because I suddenly recognize certain ideas and concepts, and I just love the flash of realization. For example (and I know that this description is going to fail to convey the joy of the ah-ha) I was looking at a simple symbol that CC3 uses. It's basically a wall. They create a wall with very few lines, but there's enough there to convey "wall-ness". Here's the symbol:

There's nothing complex about it. And yet it mostly does a good job of communicating "wall made out of stone". And I was looking at the stone pattern. There are four different greys in the pattern -- a clear application of the four-color rule. And I found myself pondering the construction of the shapes that make up each "stone" in the stone wall. I thought, "whoever created this made the stones just irregular enough without going overboard... and made them appropriately convex. The effect is just enough to convey a stone-like sense."

And then it hit me. No person made this. It's a Voronoi diagram. It's all math. It's math texts all the way down!

Comments

[erik]

You and I are differently the same. My eye was first drawn to the illustration in your post, before looking at the text. Without the preconception that it was a symbolic wall, I recognized it as a Voronoi diagram right away, and then read the text to see what it was about....

[heyfoureyes]

This is so cute, the excitement you have over this.

I didn't even know what a Voronoi diagram *is*. I bow to your superior maths.