A Topological Picture Book, Rendered
47 points by mathgenius 4 hours ago | 6 comments

sevensor 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.
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gotfork 16 minutes ago
This is awesome, what an incredible project!
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fogleman 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...!
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ekzhang 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?
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ks2048 2 hours ago
Is there a way to hide the menu on mobile? The few pixels I can see do look pretty cool.
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boguscoder 30 minutes ago
Going landscape seems to be a bit better..
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