| Oh wow, I wasn't expecting to see this on Hacker News again! This remains my most popular post. I'm very glad about the interest in mathematics it continues to generate! --- To that one criticism, yes, there is no real "why" to the animations other than I thought they looked cool. The post is not meant to be comprehensive, or teach anything more than bare basics meant to enjoy the visualizations. I disagree that math visualizations must have clear pedagogical goals. Math visualizations can be purely exploratory. The curves the poles trace out over time, are they significant somehow? Perhaps. Perhaps not. That's the exciting part of exploring new concepts. And part of the reason I chose linear over geometric interpolation. Exploring those curves and alternate interpolations/animations was going to be part two, but it never happened. I try to make posts accessible to as many people as possible. There is plenty of rigorous content already out there for learning more. The focus for my blog is exploration and curiosity. --- Perhaps I'll get around to part 2, and make it interactive with a compute shader. Apologies for the code, it was never meant to be reused. I'm sure you can improve it! Thank you for reading :) |