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A Topological Picture Book, Rendered

106 points by mathgenius ago | 11 comments

e-infinityspace |next [-]

This is my project — thanks for the interest. I just made it more mobile / small device friendly.

The app is primarily based on ideas of Hertzmann and Zorin in [this paper](https://cims.nyu.edu/gcl/papers/hertzmann2000iss.pdf), using directions of principal curvature for hatching directions.

nxpnsv |root |parent [-]

Pretty, and a lot of fun to tweak around the parameters.

sevensor |next |previous [-]

I was an undergraduate student of George's many years ago and it's an absolute delight to see these renderings. He used to doodle them on any available surface -- blackboards, notebook paper, napkins, what have you -- often with a fountain pen. He was also big into using computers for visualization and had a number of programs that ran in the CAVE.

jjtheblunt |root |parent [-]

I was a grad student of him, all you describe resonates, and i still stay in touch nearing 40 years later. some of the happiest most fun stuff in grad school, and there were endless nerdy fun pursuits. i'm so grateful i learned under him. it was incredible to see him drawing.

sheept |next |previous [-]

In addition to making the sidebar dismissable on small screens, it'd be nice to add touch-action: none to the canvas so rotating the object doesn't get interpreted as a scroll on touchscreens.

Right now, at least in Android Chrome, dragging to rotate only works briefly before it's interrupted.

ekzhang |next |previous [-]

The spacing and style of the hand sketched lines are really perfect. Was it hard get such clean drawings, even using principal curvature fields?

fogleman |next |previous [-]

Very nice. I've been inspired by the same sources and have always wanted a way to render such drawings for any arbitrary 3D model (e.g. STL file). I've played around with that quite a bit, even recently with LLM assistance, but haven't yet gotten it as good as I want. Eventually...!

gotfork |next |previous [-]

This is awesome, what an incredible project!

medwards666 |next |previous [-]

Absolutely beautiful.

ks2048 |previous [-]

Is there a way to hide the menu on mobile? The few pixels I can see do look pretty cool.

boguscoder |root |parent [-]

Going landscape seems to be a bit better..