[HN Gopher] Rafael Araujo's 20 Mesmerizing Geometrical Masterpie...
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       Rafael Araujo's 20 Mesmerizing Geometrical Masterpieces (2024)
        
       Author : NoRagrets
       Score  : 70 points
       Date   : 2025-01-21 18:24 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | monkmartinez wrote:
       | At first glance the "masterpieces" looked like a crap ton of
       | lines and circles around a sketched shell or butterfly. You know,
       | the kind you see when you tell Stable Diffusion to "sketch". Then
       | I watched the video for a sec... WOAH!!! He is talking about a
       | "formula" quite a bit... ctrl-f "formula" == 0 results.
       | 
       | Google: Rafael Araujo artist formula. Ahhhh! https://www.rafael-
       | araujo.com/calculation
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       | Now we are getting somewhere... and another that shows the
       | process a bit better:
       | https://hazelhomeartandantiques.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-cal...
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       | Now I am trawling github to see if I can find some processing or
       | similar libraries that I can play around with. Golden Ratio
       | sketches, defining physical objects and shapes from purely
       | mathematical constructions... I love rabbit holes!
        
         | nequals30 wrote:
         | Inigo Quilez has some good videos generating art and scenes
         | with just mathematical constructions:
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         | https://www.youtube.com/c/InigoQuilez
        
         | sixtyj wrote:
         | This is a deep rabbit hole indeed :)
         | 
         | Does Donald Knuth have any metaprogramming for golden
         | section/ratio?
         | 
         | About golden section in the universe there is a nice book by
         | Scott Olsen -
         | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316282.The_Golden_Sectio...
        
       | gilleain wrote:
       | Technically amazing - such fine detail, and of course precision.
       | However ...
       | 
       | I recently heard the saying "a great artist knows when to stop"
       | (it was Ben Afflek talking about AI art - I guess he was quoting
       | someone?). I feel like in the case of these drawings, less detail
       | would actually be better. More readable, perhaps.
       | 
       | Still, an impressive amount of effort for each one, given only
       | straightedge and compass.
        
       | Mistletoe wrote:
       | Is the Monarch one based on a geometric way they fly or
       | something?
        
       | Yestas wrote:
       | I believe that we still know so little about nature and its laws.
       | Sometimes it seems that we are moving in the direction of
       | technological development instead of developing our knowledge
       | about nature and aligning ourselves with it.
        
         | dcreater wrote:
         | Hi, id like to introduce you to eastern philosophy
        
       | dymax78 wrote:
       | ~10 years ago I had a renewed interested in perspective drawing,
       | and was struggling with an 'exercise' that utilized curvilinear
       | perspective & oblique angles. Anyways, I stumbled on some of
       | Rafael's drawings and found their inclusion of the guide lines /
       | measuring lines invaluable, but for the hell of it, I emailed him
       | some questions. He promptly responded and then dumped images and
       | reference material on dropbox for me - very nice guy.
       | 
       | Personal fav is "Durer" that demonstrates Albrecht Durers method
       | of projecting a spiral.
       | 
       | https://www.rafael-araujo.com/product-page/d%C3%BCrer#
        
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