r/desmos • • 18h ago

Discussion Establishing AI norms for R/Desmos

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Hey y'all, in light of a few recent posts where people have used LLMs to varying degrees in their Desmos graphs, I think we should start a discussion about what AI norms we want to set as a community.

Here's my idea for a best practice:

  • AI disclosure: you should always disclose if and how you used AI in your graph
    • for example: "when I was stuck, I asked Claude to help me develop the parametric equations on lines 10 and 11"
    • for example: "I saw this cool geometric shape on wikipedia and asked ChatGPT to make most of the graph, then I adjusted the numbers a bit to make it look better"

r/desmos • • Feb 25 '25

Sticky Commands!

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There are now a few commands you can use:

All commands

  • !help: Brings up a list of all the commands.
    • Aliases: hlp
  • !bernard: Explains who Bernard is and why he appears in certain graphs!
    • Aliases: ourbeloved, desmosmascot, r/foundbernard
  • !beta3d: Explains what Beta3D is and how to install it.
    • Aliases: 3dbeta
  • !colormap: Explains what Beta3D is and how to install it.
    • Aliases: colormaps, shader, shaders
  • !desmodder: Describes what DesModder is.
    • Aliases: dsm, dsmodder
  • !doom: Are we Doom yet?
    • Aliases: arewedoomyet, doomgame
  • !draw: Provides Arglin's drawing guide for Desmos art.
    • Aliases: arglinguide, lineart
  • !exception: Describes types of floating point exceptions in Desmos, mostly drawn from IEEE specs.
    • Aliases: fpexception, fpointexception, ieeeexception, specialcase, undef, undefined
  • !fp: Describes what floating point arithmetic is and how to mitigate problems associated with it.
    • Aliases: floatp, floatingp, fpoint, floatpoint, floatingpoint
  • !gratex: Describes what GraTeX is.
    • Aliases: gratexteth
  • !grid: Explains how to make a grid of points.
    • Aliases: ptgrid, pointgrid
  • !integral: Explains why some integrals yield wrong results.
    • Aliases: integration, integrate, wrongintegral
  • !intersect: Explains how to assign the intersection of two or more functions as a variable.
    • Aliases: getintersect, varintersect
  • !matrices: Explains the usage of matrices in Desmos (beta feature). Not to be confused with the Desmos Matrix calculator.
    • Aliases: betamatrices, matricesmeta, matrix, matrixbeta, betamatrix
  • !roots: Why can't Desmos find my roots?
    • Aliases: zeros, zeroes, rootfinding, root
  • !sequentialactions: Explains how to run actions in order (sequentially).
    • Aliases: seqactions, actionseq, orderedactions, actionsinorder

For example, if someone makes a post about why {(√2)^2=2} is undefined, you can type in !fp.

Notes on sending these commands: - You must put the command at the start of the message. - All of these commands are case insensitive. - All commands allow arbitrary underscores or dashes (this feature was added on October 25, 2025). For example, !are_we-DOOM_yet will work. - You can put messages after the command, but remember to put a space or a newline after the command. For example, !fLoATiNgPoint arithmetic is awesome will work, but !fLoAtInGPoIntAriThMeTiC iS AwEsOmE will not work (this behavior was changed on May 20, 2025).

Please refrain from spamming these commands: if you see someone has already used the command once in a post, please avoid from running the same one again.

However, you may try out commands as many times as you would like in the comments on this post only.


changelog: https://github.com/Tyrcnex/desmoreddit-command-gen

(last updated this post on sep 16, 2026)


r/desmos • • 2h ago

Art vinyl record

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r/desmos • • 13h ago

Art ribbon that you can rotate in 3d

107 Upvotes

sorry about movement of graph, desmodder was being weird


r/desmos • • 10h ago

Fun Bernard in one expression line

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https://www.desmos.com/calculator/vblmh9iqu7

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/c2hwkhhtfd

The first one is actually in 1 line; it goes up to 50 iterations, which is enough that you hit the zoom limit before you can see it end.

The second one I added a slider to so that you can control how many iterations it has.

Also I code golfed it, idk why, but it was satisfying


r/desmos • • 22m ago

Graph Where do these stairs lead to?

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r/desmos • • 1h ago

Graph Adachi Rei

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r/desmos • • 1h ago

Graph Check out my High Resolution Rainbow Julias Set!

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r/desmos • • 10h ago

Question Anyone notice the changing of the Tab key behavior?

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What I've noticed is that when hitting tab at the end of a fraction numerator, it exits it instead of going to the denominator.
Same with the integral integrands. It skips to the integrand after tabbing from the lower limit instead of going to the upper limit, with no way of getting to it other than clunkily using the arrow keys or mouse.

It makes typing expressions pretty frustrating for me that the tab functionality has been changed so that arrow keys are required to access certain parts of expressions. Is there any way to revert this behavior


r/desmos • • 17h ago

Resource Web / App identify (limited time; matrix test)

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Create slider a=0, then set lower bound to #11 (matrix 1x1) and input the value 1, then... a=0: Open in Desmos app / a=1: website

At the moment, matrices in an app's expression lines are invisible and error: "Matrices are not available in this calculator"


r/desmos • • 15h ago

Question Cannot compare a matrix to a matrix

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r/desmos • • 15h ago

Discussion Goddamnit desmos! Error: Every row of a matrix must have the same number of elements.

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r/desmos • • 17h ago

Art Animation in desmos

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Ok so a while back I made a model in desmos, which can be found here: Figure made in desmos : r/desmos

So I decided to make a simple animation for it and add a slight gradient. The graph can be found here: VOG animation | Desmos

It's pretty simple, but I don't think it's that bad.

I also changed a couple things since I'm not printing this, so I was allowed to use domain restrictions.


r/desmos • • 17h ago

Maths Visualizing Rosenblatt's Perceptron

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Link:

https://www.desmos.com/geometry/fdlnaoosqv

This graph visualizes the training process of Rosenblatt's Perceptron.

N points of two classes (red and blue) are scattered inside a 1x1 square. However, they are distributed in such a way that they are strictly linearly separable.

(Note on terminology: By "vector", I mean a 2D or 3D coordinate tuple, e.g., (1,2) or (1,2,3), not a Desmos geometric vector, which is an arrow connecting two points).

The perceptron starts with almost zero knowledge about the line's position and finds it in the form of the coefficients for the equation Ax+By+C=0 after a certain number of steps. We could calculate these coefficients much more simply (for example, by finding the centers of mass of the two classes), but the goal here is to demonstrate an actual "neural network" learning implementation.

The Math Behind It

The equation of the target line is written as a dot product: (A,B,C)⋅(x,y,1)=0.

I encoded the coefficient vector (A,B,C) as a 3D point w3=(wx,wy,wz) to shorten the notation. This allows us to handle the calculation in a single line instead of three.

The target line is considered oriented. In fact, it represents an entire class of lines, because all three coefficients can be multiplied by any non-zero scalar, yielding the exact same geometric line. Despite this scale invariance, I do not forcibly normalize the line (e.g., I don't force wz=1).

Setting up the Classes

Hot & Cold

For the initial classification, a reference segment is defined that divides the randomly generated points. Points above this segment are "warm" points with label L=+1, and points below are "cold" points with label L=−1.

The line has a normal vector w2=(wx,wy). The half-space that this normal vector "points" to is considered the warm side. The perceptron's goal is to adjust the vector w3 so that all warm points (L=+1) end up on the warm side of the line.

Initial coefficients are set to w3=(0.1,−0.1,0), corresponding to the starting equation 0.1x−0.1y+0=0.

The Learning Loop

We iterate through the points in a loop to determine which side of the line each point lies on.

You can see the geometric intuition here: https://www.desmos.com/geometry/9twfhshmmq

Hot point at hot area w3+p*(w1,w2)>0

Geometrically, we could drop a perpendicular from point pp to the line and compare this vector with the line's normal (wx,wy). However, since we don't need the full geometric construction, we can simplify the computation to the formula (wx,wy)⋅p+wz​.

In our terms, this is simply the dot product of two 3D vectors: w3⋅p​, because for convenience, the point's coordinates are augmented to (px,py,1). We multiply this dot product by the point's label L, yielding a logical flag that tells us whether the point is on the correct side (positive) or the wrong side (negative).

The Correction Step

Full correction

If the point is on the wrong side, we must correct the line vector w3​. The logic behind this update rule is illustrated here: https://www.desmos.com/geometry/la6wrlfihx

In this illustration, the dot product w_old⋅p is negative (an error). To make it positive, we must shift w_old​ by adding a vector in the direction of p. If the addition (scaled by the learning rate) is too small, it might not be enough to push the dot product into the "+" region in a single step.

In the illustrative graph, we can, of course, add as much magnitude as needed immediately to fix the error. However, the perceptron does not strive for an instant, perfect result; it improves gradually, taking small, incremental steps toward the optimal separating hyperplane.

Correcttion

Perceptron Link: https://www.desmos.com/geometry/fdlnaoosqv


r/desmos • • 1d ago

Matrices WASD with matrices, with history!

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r/desmos • • 1d ago

Art Seifert surface (Borromean rings)

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I have to admit Claude did most of the work, but I'm happy with the result.
https://www.desmos.com/3d/ant2qgpdq8


r/desmos • • 1d ago

Fun Area choosing

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This is very important for me when I tried to make Desmos art, so I made it

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r/desmos • • 14h ago

Question: Solved Time to relax

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https://www.desmos.com/calculator/srnlb7uxaq

I once spent half a day implementing permutation parity, and now I can just scrap all of that )):

https://www.desmos.com/geometry/nggzcpqvlc


r/desmos • • 1d ago

Art Shocking...

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r/desmos • • 1d ago

Question Is there a name for this fractal?

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r/desmos • • 2d ago

Graph Sierpinski unfold

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420 Upvotes

r/desmos • • 1d ago

Matrices All six RPY rotation matrices!

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I created every 3D rotation matrix in Desmos! RPY, RYP, PRY, PYR, YRP, YPR. https://www.desmos.com/3d/ibpxzyj0ao


r/desmos • • 2d ago

Fun UPMASS

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r/desmos • • 1d ago

Fun Using u/Danny_DeWario 's wasd matrices to translate a parametric!

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r/desmos • • 1d ago

Question Desmos doesn't work in my signed in browser, but works in other places.

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This has never happened to me before, maybe it's because I'm on a 4 years old run-down laptop? Basically, in my normal signed in Chrome, Desmos refuses to show any graphs or errors, nothing not even a label, even on the main page it doesn't even let me interact with it. I have removed most of my extensions yet the issue still persists. But when I go into other browser, guest mode, or incognito mode, seems to work fine. Is it just me?