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• enqk
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  DrNosferatu
  Not exactly circles, but famously: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
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  ezekg
  It's really satisfying to create logomarks solely out of circles, idk why. A challenge, I guess.I did a few back in my day as a designer:1. https://dribbble.com/shots/1909369-Liberty-Eagle-Arms2. https://dribbble.com/shots/1553151-Flint-mark-iconsThat first one is some of my best work.
• rob74
  > Inspired by the Twitter logo, which is made from 13 perfect circlesCompared 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...).
• sverhagen
  It feels like I'm looking at the next so many Ubuntu backgrounds!
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  nonethewiser
  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.
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  iamwil
  I remember some post that I can find now, that demonstrated the twitter bird logo is also made from circles. All I can find is this reddit post now.https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/txdimd/t...
• thesz
  Because circles there also need operations over them (union, intersection or subtraction), it is a good example of low complexity art [1].[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-complexity_artMy 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...
• apankrat
  I did something similar 15+ years ago to use as an avatar in forums, twitters and some such - https://swapped.ch/#!/personal-mark
• vismit2000
  Reminds of 'Drawing with circles' in 3b1b classic on Fourier series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sGWTCMz2kSo if we remove the condition of 13, everything is in fact made of circles only!
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  abeppu
  See also work from Schmidhuber in the mid/late 1990s https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/locoart/node12.html
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  fracus
  Art with restrictions can be more interesting than without.
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  kleiba
  Not circles, but arcs.
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  tzury
  2016…This type of content is becoming rarer on the internet nowadays.
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  noduerme
  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.
• saunved_42
  I really love the way these look. I'm imagining a short film with these characters, and it'd be a nice experiment to see how it turns out.
• gcanyon
  It bugs me than e.g. the owl's ears benefit from a dramatic change in color that isn't related to anything outlined by the circles.
• KolibriFly
  Reminds me of how some of the best ideas come out of working within restrictions, not in spite of them
• ge96
  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
• agys
  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.https://www.danielenannini.it/en/portfolio/animali-compassat...https://www.compasses-zoo.net/compasses-zoo/index.php
• __s
  Curious how well transforms on circles could be composed to animate these animals
• I_Nidhi
  Reminds me of the time we made geometric art using a compass. https://homeschoolmath.blogspot.com/2013/02/geometric-art-pr...
• glxxyz
  I never really liked Twitter but I feel oddly nostalgic for the logo now.
• paulirish
  Vaguely related and also fun: https://www.koalastothemax.com/ (2011)
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  barbazoo
  Could this be the next captcha challenge? "Draw an animal out of 13 circles to prove you are human".
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  curiousObject
  Interesting.What animals cannot be accurately depicted with 13 circles?
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  ksajh
  class Animal {Circle circles_[13];}
• dukeofdoom
  This guy is doing something similar for his game:The Procedural Animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlfh_rv6khYGibbon: Beyond the Trees - Wolfire Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCKdGlpsdlo
• deadbabe
  Could an AI generate art like this and actually utilize perfect circles, to create whatever you ask?
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  ajross
  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?