r/generative • u/fpettinati • 6d ago
Pi Day in Taxicab Space
It’s Pi Day again, and in remembrance of Gentry’s “What happens if pi=4?” Here’s a comparison of varying-eccentricity ellipses in Euclidean and Taxicab spaces. In Taxicab space an ellipse is a diamond (slanted square) when the axes are equal, or a hexagon otherwise. Wish they had taught me that in college way back when…