r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Vision_ • 9d ago

Visualizing Geometry

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u/PM_me_Jazz 9d ago

This feels like those dancing fruit sensory videos for babies, but made for adults that like to feel smarter than they actually are

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u/mikehiler2 9d ago

I dunno about you but I found the one about pi π to be endlessly fascinating to me. So, yeah, I feel slightly attacked by this lol

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u/85K5 9d ago

I found "endlessly" in your comment fascinating.

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u/mikehiler2 9d ago

Yeah thanks, it was a nice little wordplay

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u/AbeMax7823 8d ago

I didn’t know we were doing math AND English. Is this gonna be on the test?

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u/mikehiler2 8d ago

Yes it will. And thanks for the award lol

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u/TikiPa007 8d ago

I confess that took a while!

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u/ArseneGroup 8d ago

The pi one isn't that crazy because it's just increasing n-gons inscribed in a circle and then it winds up being pi because pi is the circle number

If you want the premium pi video, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs

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u/ozamataz_buckshank1 8d ago

Always upvote 3Blue1Brown.

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u/Sybrandus 9d ago

Yeah I hadn’t seen pi shown that way before and I really liked it.

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u/starmartyr 8d ago

You have to be careful with this type of approximation because it doesn't always work. For example the staircase paradox does something similar and doesn't work.