A Topological Picture Book, Rendered

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sevensor•about 2 hours ago

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•36 minutes ago

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.

gotfork•about 1 hour ago

This is awesome, what an incredible project!

fogleman•about 2 hours ago

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...!

ekzhang•about 2 hours ago

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

ks2048•about 2 hours ago

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

boguscoder•about 1 hour ago

Going landscape seems to be a bit better..

A Topological Picture Book, Rendered

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