> Inspired by the Twitter logo, which is made from 13 perfect circles
Compared to that, the new logo doesn't have a circle (segment) anywhere to be seen (unless you consider straight lines as circle segments with the center located at infinity of course), and is simply the "mathematical double-struck capital X" from an unknown but probably pre-existing font (apparently Monotype's "Special Alphabets 4" comes close, but isn't identical, according to https://tweethunter.io/blog/how-to-write-twitter-x-iphone-ma...).
Im curious what the process looks like to implement this. It seems like it would be easiest to start with the animal using only perfectly(?) curved lines and then complete them into circles after the fact. Although that seems kind of pointless and I imagine they start with circles. And I guess it would hard to have a curve from a perfect circle without the circle?
I just have a hard time imagining you start with circles, lay them down (resize as needed) and continue. I mean I guess that doesnt sound so crazy after I say it... it just seems like it would add a lot of extra noise to the image that would make it much harder to draw.
I miss being creative, before I knew how to make front end UIs I had crazy ideas but then became grounded. This one isn't super crazy but I like those vertical buildings.
Tangent, with a dark/colorful theme in an editor the minimap looks like a city scape
My aunt grifted me “Animali Compassati” when I was a kid… A small book with instructions for animals that you could draw with a compass.
The site is unclear somehow… but the instructions were pretty great in the book.
This page feels like an AI traveled back in time and (faked) the date.
[edit] Nevermind. I'm being too harsh. The creator was obviously having fun and being creative. That's cool. I think if nothing else this just proves how jaded and skeptical about clever artwork I've become in the past few years.
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?
Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)
(dorithegiant.com)620 points by jihadjihad 2 April 2025 | 105 comments
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With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%27s_elephant
I did a few back in my day as a designer:
1. https://dribbble.com/shots/1909369-Liberty-Eagle-Arms
2. https://dribbble.com/shots/1553151-Flint-mark-icons
That first one is some of my best work.
Compared to that, the new logo doesn't have a circle (segment) anywhere to be seen (unless you consider straight lines as circle segments with the center located at infinity of course), and is simply the "mathematical double-struck capital X" from an unknown but probably pre-existing font (apparently Monotype's "Special Alphabets 4" comes close, but isn't identical, according to https://tweethunter.io/blog/how-to-write-twitter-x-iphone-ma...).
I just have a hard time imagining you start with circles, lay them down (resize as needed) and continue. I mean I guess that doesnt sound so crazy after I say it... it just seems like it would add a lot of extra noise to the image that would make it much harder to draw.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/txdimd/t...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-complexity_art
My son is a big fan of bytebeat [2], which is also a low complexity art, but music.
[2] https://dollchan.net/bytebeat/#4AAAA+kUryC/X0CixswNhQyM1Q01N...
Often depicting slices of vegetables, animals..
From few circles to hundreds
So if we remove the condition of 13, everything is in fact made of circles only!
Tangent, with a dark/colorful theme in an editor the minimap looks like a city scape
https://www.danielenannini.it/en/portfolio/animali-compassat...
https://www.compasses-zoo.net/compasses-zoo/index.php
[edit] Nevermind. I'm being too harsh. The creator was obviously having fun and being creative. That's cool. I think if nothing else this just proves how jaded and skeptical about clever artwork I've become in the past few years.
This type of content is becoming rarer on the internet nowadays.
What animals cannot be accurately depicted with 13 circles?
Circle circles_[13];
}
The Procedural Animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlfh_rv6khY
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees - Wolfire Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCKdGlpsdlo
What needs to change to enable this kind of exploration?