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abeppu ◴[] No.43558122[source]
See also work from Schmidhuber in the mid/late 1990s https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/locoart/node12.html
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moconnor ◴[] No.43558224[source]
I thought this was a joke, but he actually did do this first. Impressive!
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seanhunter ◴[] No.43558320[source]
I'm not sure whether or not he did this first, but it's very similar to an extremely impressive, but old and well-known illustration of the power of Fourier analysis in which you construct a "Fourier epicycle" (think: machine made of circular gears of different ratios) that can sketch any image. 3blue1brown has a great video on Fourier Epicycles but you can also get the idea here https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/171755/how-c...
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1. floxy ◴[] No.43558962[source]
Also of potential interest is Kempe's Universailty Theroem which states you can draw any (polynomial) shape with a set of mechanical linkages. Like one that will sign your name.

https://academic.oup.com/plms/article/s1-7/1/213/1570315?log...

http://www.koutschan.de/data/link/

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2. dekhn ◴[] No.43561137[source]
damn, I got nerdsniped again