A short blog.
I love art and seeing how much human creativity can reach its limits.
I appreciate seeing human art from different backgrounds, culture, and the world expressed through traditional or digital means.
They're all amazing.
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Traditional art using pen, pencil, charcoal, or whatever tools on a piece of paper or another canvas.
Digital art using digital tech. Everyone knows about them. They're great. They're amazing.
The thing about these is that it's always insane that someone could be able to do this with enough time and practice.
They picked up a pencil and decided that day that they will become a master at drawing something so beautiful, so emotionally impactful, or simply silly.
Sometimes, it's all at the same time!
That's what I love about art. You can express yourself in so many ways by conveying your emotions on a canvas and go wild!
For most art, it's so unbelievable to think how the author thought of it in the first place.
I might need a second life before I could even understand the efforts poured into the fine details of these art.
ASCII art. How is it even possible to use only characters from a character encoding meant to transmit text across the world be used to create promising pictures of cats?
Humans find ways to express themselves and this is a great example of using a limitation to create something very beautiful in its own ways.
ASCII rendering shader is amazing.
This implementation is absolutely beautiful. I'd love to implement that myself one day.
Math is usually thought of as that complicated concept that only smart people enjoy.
However, all those visualizations of complex math using trigonometry, imaginary numbers, or a higher form of math are always beautiful to see and feel.
You can get to understand why those smart people you call "nerds" love these numbers and shapes.
They're beautiful in their own ways.
People have gone further to use graphs with some trigonometry to create beautiful creations that most would never dream of creating.
Even promising-looking animations are possible using purely math... and some programming.
Even small-scale, but functional games are possible using purely math.
Every time I see programming, I always think of the most sophisticated form of representing art in a human-readable language that machines can understand.
It's absolutely astonishing that humans can find ways to design a bridge between digital noise into actual meaningful nonsense.
Yet, somehow in someway, people have created challenges to make the most beautiful mesmerizing animations using shader effects.
Some other insane people decided to make the source code itself beautiful using code golf... for fun!
Look, there are good art, and there are bad art. It's hard to find enough examples of everything in the world. What I can say is that they're all beautiful in their own ways.