Alan Turing Algorithmically Approximated by Ellipses: A Computer Art Project

Just a cool find on Twit­ter, a work of com­put­er art cre­at­ed by Jere­my Kun, a math PhD from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois at Chica­go, and now an engi­neer at Google.

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