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there is at least one video, if not a series of videos, where he explains his process in detail, showing the coding process and everything. it is a collaboration with another person where, if i recall, he is teaching them.

i will see if i can find it.

edit: "How I animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim demo with Ben Sparks" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbu7Zu5X1zI

more on workflow: https://github.com/3b1b/videos?tab=readme-ov-file#workflow

code for videos: https://github.com/3b1b/videos

manim: https://github.com/3b1b/manim

manim community edition: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/

All of 3Blue1Brown is - hoghly highly recommend

Seems like you could apply the clever transforms to generate a displacement map (that then allows you to move it across any source image and quickly get the Droste effect).

(I still have not made it all the way to the end of the video though, perhaps that is where they end up.)

"Complex concept"

I see what you did there.

Well, you get the frequency domain derivative. This is the same as scaling the time domain by a linear ramp. Not exactly hugely useful, unless you happen to be in radar.

You can take the finite difference with eg np.diff(waveform) though.

YouTube has A/B testing features that allow videos to have multiple titles and/or thumbnails.

For me it is "Decoding Escher's most mind-bending piece"

> How (and why) to take a logarithm of an image

I watched it a few days ago and this descriptive title was part of the reason I clicked. I generally trust 3B1B anyway but normally a title like "This picture broke my brain" would put me off.

i see "Decoding Escher's most mind-bending piece".

fascinating, and absurdly confusing, that there are multiple titles.

What "similar thing" are you asking for? The Laughing Cow image exists. The Print Gallery is an object itself existing at 2 zoom levels in the same place, but the cheese exists in different places. You can't have two copies of the same image in the same place - that's not a copy; it's just itself.

One of Dutch artist M.C. Escher's works is a man is admiring a piece of art that itself depicts the building the (very same) man is in [0]. Escher left out the middle bit of the painting, probably since it's fairly complicated, putting his signature there instead. The video itself is about the complex analysis used to fill in that missing middle, based on a paper ~20 years ago.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_Gallery_(M._C._Escher)

The punchline is that you can fill in the centre of Escher's piece by using complex analysis, and it produces a very satisfying, "obviously correct", solution.

But, as with all jokes, the punchline isn't funny at all without the setup.

The print gallery is just Aw^c in the complex plane

The image is essentially a self-similar 'droste-effect' image in disguise. The warping of that image shifts that self- similarity into a visual loop, but the warped image still has a droste-style self-similarity in the center as well.

The whole point is the explanation... it's a bit like someone telling you to take a 2 week holidays somewhere and you'd just say: it's too long, can't someone just get me a plane ticket there and back the same day so I can compress the stay?

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This kind of risks obscuring what's actually going on.

Manifold Garden isn't far off.

This was the title used when I came across the video. Apparently YouTube uses many different titles for A/B testing but this is the one I got. Can't edit it now, unfortunately.

EDIT: seems like dang or team took care of it, thanks!

It makes more sense when seen on YouTube where you get the thumbnail of one of M. C. Eschers famous drawings is shown.

It’s a drawing of a guy looking at a picture of a town with himself standing in the town, but it’s all twirled and twisted so it’s self repetition isn’t obvious.

I clicked on the link and the video title is "Decoding Escher's most mind-bending piece", which is a lot better. I also had no idea what "3B1B video" meant, apparently it's a channel called "3Blue1Brown".

It's about examining the mathematical methods MC Escher used in one of his recursive drawings.