Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by sctgrhm 1111 days ago
I’m a fan of code aided design and really appreciate the effort and creativity in what you have done here. without an extensive background in geometry, I sometimes wonder how one could find neat concepts like the Lissajous curves that have a near direct applicability to graphic design ?
2 comments

If you poke around the field of "creative computing" you'll see a lot of the same examples being used. In this particular case you want to look at parametric equations / parametric curves.

Here's Wikipedia on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_equation

Here's my contribution: http://www.creativescala.org/creative-scala/flowers/flowers....

For this particular brand, we spent a lot of time looking at nature, specifically fungal networks / mycelium etc. We also looked at fractals and other items in nature that have a specific mathematical quality to them. Pretty much anything in nature that has some level of symmetry or predictability to it can probably be recreated with math. These curves originally came from us looking at harmony / harmonics in music.

Wikipedia is a great wormhole for ideation because you'll be looking at one thing and discover something equally amazing just clicking around the article.