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How can something as abstract as a graph, consisting of nodes, edges, and a few dynamical rules, end up looking so alive? It's one of the strangest strengths of Mathematics.

Mathelirium

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Màxkw’tët (Bear) 🐻 🪶15 days ago

That’s because adjacency isn’t just representational but ontological. Which all of graph theory and spectral graph theory is derivable from A. So both theories are just downstream consequences of adjacency.

AHQ⁵15 days ago

It’s made of smaller parts that are staying close, supporting, and reinforcing eachothers structure. That’s what makes that feeling.

N815 days ago

Geometry births structure, it’s clear. But what creates the geometry?

Mugur Marculescu15 days ago

This is something I think about a lot:

Nikolina Tesla ⚡ aka Queen15 days ago

It's all about golden ratio. The most strongest force in the universe.

Tom Nicholson15 days ago

With the right graph and traversal algorithm you can do pretty much anything

Talk to Your Money15 days ago

Because it jiggles and only alive things jiggle

🪓 🦋15 days ago

Very Chemtool.

Vivek15 days ago

Kind of like automata that stephen wolfram keeps talking about

Felix Woitzel14 days ago

may I suggest, that today is a a once in a while day and this

Ben Moore15 days ago

🤯

I⁰ AM⁰¹ Perceptioⁿ ⁿoticing-being⁰¹ human³⁵⁸, Now🪬14 days ago

Because the shimmering surface is the "accretion disc horizon visible" of the unseen event that the nonlocal zero point motion oscillation is 🤫

Lésbos15 days ago

Maybe because its animated to move like a living cell? Why is it bouncing around so much? Street maps dont bounce. Why is the graphic?

steven Kirkland15 days ago

Amazing visual. Very helpful. Thanks math.

TrueNorth15 days ago

Go more discrete where nodes are in Planck scale topological contact.

Scythe15 days ago

You've made a graph wiggle, so what

Shayla Tezcatlipoca15 days ago

Life was using Math, long before Humans existed... So perhaps it is more that human + ai math, is now finally able to model the complexity in such magnificent dynamic detail - we are wonder struck.... Maybe life and emergence of intelligence - was math, and not random chance ? but a bit of both, as is going on in that sim ?

soft radius15 days ago

Because life is an illusion 🤣

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