Tiny Art in Less Than 280 Characters (2017)

Re:Tiny Art in Less Than 280 Characters (2017) by leggomylibro on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:55PM (#16424121)

I think they mean that libraries like 'ggplot2' and 'dplyr' and 'TurtleGraphics' use a LOT more than 280 lines of code.

When people see 'small code generates pretty graphics', they usually don't equate that to, 'a library was used as intended.'

They think of projects that use math in interesting ways to wring unexpected results out of very limited conditions. Stuff like this: http://www.ozone3d.net/tutorials/intro_demoscene.php

It's cool and fun to graph mathematical patterns, but it does seem a little disingenuous to call it "Tiny Art".

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Re:Tiny Art in Less Than 280 Characters (2017) by platz on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:59PM (#16424628)

it's tiny because it can be expressed in a tiny respresentation

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Re:Tiny Art in Less Than 280 Characters (2017) by everyone on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @07:39PM (#16425752)

Ive just come up with a symbol that represents the entire collection of the Louvre.

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Re:Tiny Art in Less Than 280 Characters (2017) by platz on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @07:52PM (#16425830)

That is a symbol with 0 re-use and therefore 0 abstraction. That is much less interesting than a represtentation that can generalize across a wide range of uses

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Re:Tiny Art in Less Than 280 Characters (2017) by gonvaled on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @10:23PM (#16426583)

No no, it is actually extremely flexible and reusable:

draw("louvre")

It has support for lots of collections.

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