The last post got a lot of love! It was amazing to see, and this time I thought I'd share my personal art : ) This is a single line art based off a scientific drawing of an apple tree! It's my personal favorite to date

What program did you use?

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I draw in adobe illustrator :) I export this as a SVG for my table to read. Everything has to be one line, so it was definitely a learning curve lol

What the hell makes this scientific?

what is a scientific drawing?

It's a drawing to help represent scientific ideas in a visual way basically. Botanical illustrations are commonly found in science books when learning about plants/how they reproduce/the segments of the plant.

Its a loose use of the word I suppose. A scientific drawing is meant to visually represent ideas. I can start giving out apple facts if you'd like.

Interesting.. I'm searching online and don't see anything similar to this

The table itself or the art? I use a Sisyphus table to draw on : ) I was referencing some of Pierre-Joseph Redouté artwork when I was creating this piece.

"lets use scientific or science literally everywhere to sound cool" is just fcking annoying ...

Ah I see. Well it's beautiful!

Back before photography, naturalists drew their finds. I'll allow it.

I hEckIN LoVE sOieNcE!!!!!!1111

I've been thinking about one of those tables. I have a weird question. In the videos and descriptions I've read, everything says that the ball is rolling across/through the sand. And I can't tell if that's really true or not from any of the videos.

So, is the ball actually rolling? Or is it just being dragged through the sand without doing any rotation of its own? Can you tell the difference when watching it draw?

I suppose I was just wondering if one side of the ball ends up showing appreciable wear from the friction over time if it's being dragged, or if you're supposed to manually change the ball's Y-axis every now and again (flip it or anything). Not that that would be a big deal, of course.

Just curious about your experience with that.

Love it

”Meant to visually represent ideas”

So… A drawing?

What "scientific idea" does this represent?

Nice work man, sorry you’re getting so much downvotes for using “scientific” unnecessarily. While I agree it is unnecessary, people do be unnecessarily pedantic here sometimes.

It’s art, it’s nice, have a nice day!

Interesting question! I've always thought it was doing a rotation, but upon a closer look at my own table, it looks like it's more of a drag. It's hard to tell haha! I really had to look. My marble doesn't have any wear from the constant abuse I put it through when testing my artwork or just having it play my many playlists.

Yeah, I assumed it was more of a drag thing, since I can't really conceptualize the physics required to make it actually rotate/roll.

Though to be fair, there's a shitload of physics that are way beyond my grasp, hence my question.

Personally, I think I'd stick a little googly eye on top of it for a bit just to see what happens. And to amuse myself a bit.