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[GIF] Eyes Wide (Stereographic projection of spherical circle packing)

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POSTED BY: EDITORIAL BOARD

Great! Not sure if anyone noticed, but this creates an optical illusion of the whole thing floating upwards. That's rare, because I think most of the optical illusions are static, right? - and this one is produced by the dynamic part.

POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov

Huh, interesting!

I feel like there are some animations (even some of mine, probably) that are sort of visual versions of a Shepard tone.

Posted 8 years ago

Very neat! Only a few minor things:

  1. I would have computed verts like this:

    verts = Normalize /@ N[PolyhedronData[{"Dipyramid", 3}, "VertexCoordinates"]].RotationMatrix[-?/6, {0, 0, 1}]
    

(note the use of the inverse/transpose, since I'm post-multiplying instead of pre-multiplying)

  1. As I pointed out in one of your previous posts, if your are already using inexact numbers, NullSpace[] will automatically return orthonormalized vectors (via SVD), so b = NullSpace[{#}] & /@ p suffices.

Otherwise, nicely done. :)

POSTED BY: J. M.
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