Comment by andrewflnr
7 hours ago
Dude, it's fine to be learning stuff and even writing about it. But if you're still discovering basic stuff like level sets, then maybe hold off on declaring that you've discovered, after centuries of mathematical development, a completely new form of graphing?
the author uses hyperbole, yeah. they're an artist, I think it's expected. I don't find anything personally offensive in the exaggerated framing of this art
I think your critique would be more effective if you left out the part where you shame the author's lack of knowledge about level sets
I think it hides your valid (if overstated) criticism of the author's exaggeration behind a non-constructive insult, and your comment would be better without that tone
> Dude, it's fine to be learning stuff and even writing about it.
The point about level sets is entirely that the author not only does not have the background to make claims about novelty, they have all the clues they need to figure out that they don't have the background.
It reads more like mysticism than a serious claim of novelty, chill out.
> a new type of graphing called "fuzzy graphing"
> For all the history of computational mathematical visualization, graphing equations has been done in binary mode
These are very concrete, non-mystical claims. But do you really think "mysticism" is better here?
The first app that lets you type in an implicit curve and get a graph of its level set is a very different claim from "For all the history of computational mathematical visualization, graphing equations has been done in binary mode".
The millions of brightly-colored fractal posters adorning walls in the 80s are a very clear counter-example to your claim.
Your app is cool and the visualization is neat. The hyperbolic claims of originality really detract from that.
To be fair, yes, there are some places where non-binary graphing has been done (like error gradient graphs in AI), but as far as I know, this is the first app where you can type in a basic x/y equation and get a non-binary graph.
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