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Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)

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633 points jihadjihad | 4 comments | 02 Apr 25 15:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.625s | source
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ajross ◴[02 Apr 25 15:50 UTC] No.43558061[source]▶
I tend to wonder if stuff like this is an informative boundary on AI capabilities. I mean, you can't ask a LLM today to do that (AFAICT). "Here's a simply-specified but extremely broad search space, solve this problem in it" isn't something that fits the model. But it's a relatively common (if not "easy") task human beings like to show off.

What needs to change to enable this kind of exploration?

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JohnKemeny ◴[02 Apr 25 16:03 UTC] No.43558184[source]▶
Is it impossible, in this day and age, to enjoy a post without thinking about LLMs? It's like an obsession.
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1. generationP ◴[02 Apr 25 16:18 UTC] No.43558348[source]▶
Nope, but this post is such a neat illustration of the richness of "life" that fits into 39 real parameters (each circle can be coordinatized as 3 real numbers: one for its radius and two for its center) that my first thought on seeing it was also "no surprise then that a matrix with a million entries can talk like an erudite person".
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2. floxy ◴[02 Apr 25 16:40 UTC] No.43558578[source]▶
Wouldn't you also need a two parameters for the arc starting position and stopping position for each circle, and then a few more to identify the areas that need to be filled, along with the color?
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3. jstanley ◴[02 Apr 25 16:42 UTC] No.43558599[source]▶
And all of those are simply translation and scaling of 36 parameters with an implicit unit circle at the origin.

Then if you want to factor out rotations, drop another parameter and say the 1st explicit circle lies on the x axis.

4. laurentlb ◴[02 Apr 25 17:03 UTC] No.43558834[source]▶
Once you've drawn the circles, I think you just need to specify which regions are filled.

Arcs are just intersection of circles, so they are implicit, as far as I can tell.