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Cool. Anything else like it?


My friend and I write a physics/art/geometry/math blog with gifs for illustrations: http://danielwalsh.tumblr.com/ - denser posts, but hopefully fun. (Here's also a list of posts, since they're so long that the blog can be hard to browse: http://danielwalsh.tumblr.com/tableofcontents )

I also recommend http://blog.matthen.com/ (tons of math gifs with source code) and http://visualizingmath.tumblr.com/ (lots of gifs and other images along these lines).


I liked the slinky one so much I submitted it.


Nice, thanks!


Your blog is now on my (short) reading list.


If you want books you can try these old books:

Dynamical Systems and Fractals (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dynamical-Systems-Fractals-Computer-...)

Mathographics (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mathographics-Robert-Dixon/dp/048626...)

Computers Pattern Chaos & Beauty (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Computers-Pattern-Beauty-Clifford-Pi...)

Fractals Images of Chaos (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fractals-Images-Chaos-Penguin-Scienc...)

I suggest these because they all contain some kind of code.



Awesome




What isn't there a /r/ for on Reddit? Seems like they cover everything.



Sometimes tumblr has interesting gifs: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/math-gif



My personal favourite mathematical animation is the construction of Bezier curves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezier_curve#Constructing_B.C3....


This was exactly how I made sprite animations back in my Amiga demo coding days. Take a look at early C64/Amiga demos and you'll recognize these patters.




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