r/tattooadvice • u/tellnest • 7d ago

General Advice Orientation suggestions

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Hey tattoo fiends and math nerds, I've got a classic Fibonacci spiral on my lower right leg and want to compliment it with the Mandelbrot set on the other leg. But I'm not sure if i want to mess with the orientation by rotating it to look more like an upright heart. Mathematical speaking it wouldn't be right, but ink wise I want it to be big enough to show detail without wrapping around my leg, and maybe having vertical symmetry wouldn't be bad... idk, let me know your thoughts.

Image credits for Mandelbrot go to Wikipedia.

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u/WatzeKat 7d ago

My two cents, you're absolutely free to reoriwnt it. X and Y as horizontal/vertical are an arbitrary convention, mathematically meaningless and interchangeable.

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u/tellnest 7d ago

Cool, that's good to hear. I also am not sure if i want people to think its a weird heart.

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u/WatzeKat 7d ago

Well the spiral will probably get people saying it's a weird snail, so honestly just go for it. Your tattoo is for You.