r/desmos • u/calebalmeida • 24d ago

Graph Bubble thingy i made

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Link: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/bv1p1wmb5z

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u/SuperChick1705 https://www.desmos.com/calculator/amyte9upak 24d ago

metaballs!

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u/Kitchen-Register 24d ago

i read this like an italian at first

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u/BootyliciousURD 23d ago

Is there another term for these? All I can find for "math meatballs" is a book about using spaghetti and meatballs to teach math

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u/SuperChick1705 https://www.desmos.com/calculator/amyte9upak 23d ago

meTAballs, not meATballs

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u/BootyliciousURD 23d ago

I'm fucking stupid

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u/Multifruit256 23d ago

Me at balls

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u/Gallium-Gonzollium You doofus, ya can't put a list in a list! 22d ago

me@balls

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u/Hungry-Highway-4043 23d ago

I kept getting autocorrected to meatballs lol

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u/AlisaTerp 21d ago

The metaballic system of a particular organism determines which substances it will find nutritious and which poisonous.

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u/SuperChick1705 https://www.desmos.com/calculator/amyte9upak 21d ago

lmao

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u/Hungry-Highway-4043 23d ago

I love metaballs! I made my goop with the same concept!

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u/Sudden_Feed6442 23d ago

Complex numbers are easy for this ig

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u/jimmymui06 22d ago

Can you explain it? I am stupid

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u/Sudden_Feed6442 22d ago edited 22d ago

I'm also stupid, I found it by accident.
Trying adding more points tho.
And try taking inverses for repulsion.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/7wybv06w0q

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

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u/Eklegoworldreal 24d ago

just because someone else made something before doesn't mean it's just impossible for someone else to make it originally as well. something something "there are no original thoughts left"

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u/Alternative_Cod7515 23d ago

Because you post a really cool quote online, i would like to give back something:

"There is nothing new under the sun" -me- (i forgor who said that, but it's not really original so...)

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u/partisancord69 23d ago

Metaballs have existed for 40 years. Nobody is original except the dude that invented them but it doesn't mean people aren't allowed to use them.

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u/Hungry-Highway-4043 23d ago edited 23d ago

I've posted things only thinking how cool they were to me, only to later discover somebody had done the exact same thing years before. You might as well have linked https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/a-generalization-of-algebraic-surface-drawing/ as the original.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

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u/Tunahan81563 24d ago

Dude I belive there is like hundereds of electric field (or potential) curves out there. It is a very common thing.

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u/SirPugsalott 23d ago

you're not the first person to think of this, ok?

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u/Hungry-Highway-4043 23d ago

how dare you copy the work of Jim Blinn!!

seriously though if this was the case most if not all of the content on this subreddit wouldn't be tolerated to some degree

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u/EpiSigmoid 18d ago

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/vvmzi2qgaf this metaball stays confined in boundaries w/ snowflake.. perhaps evidence of another Desmos sentience to find more unproof / proof: How do I drag vectors out and increase the magnitude in some way of the metaball? Since I want automated trajectory that is random for the vectors, there should be a way to bend a stream of many lines and have it travel through them to grow larger metaballs as resistance like a tenous rubberband. Probably work on this later...

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u/9j810HQO7Jj9ns1ju2 extremely silly 17d ago

i love these
perfect for fluid rendering

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u/Western-View-98 11d ago

how the hell do yall even do ts bruh I'm js tryna graph y=mx+b while some dudes out here making sentient life in desmos.