Can an Elephant Be Graphed? A Look at Von Neumann's Approach

[etotheipi]

Here is an elephant.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[etotheipi]

bats are scary, i like elephants more because they have big trunks

 

[jedishrfu]

Where did the tusks go?

 

[etotheipi]

i added it, do you like it? ☺

 

[jedishrfu]

Next stop a woolly mammoth.

To celebrate some popcorn and a movie staring Sabu.

 

[etotheipi]

i'm going to call him elliot the elephant

 

[hutchphd]

I'm glad the poachers did not get his ivory. That would be dis-tusking.
(Its your fault...)

 

[etotheipi]

don't worry, elliot just hadn't grown tusks yet

anyway, what are your thoughts on penguins?

 

[etotheipi]

I like their little stumpy fins

 

[berkeman]

i added it, do you like it?

Transparent tusks! High-tech!

anyway, what are your thoughts on penguins?

I've had bad experiences with penguins...

 

[etotheipi]

also my favourite animal is called 3,4,4,5-tetramethyl-2,5-cyclohexadienone, but you might know him better as penguinone

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Here is an elephant.

So let's see the expressions to make this :)

 

[etotheipi]

So let's see the expressions to make this :)

sadly sir desmos did not save a copy of elliot; the only remnant I have left of him is a screenshot of some of his early dna, long before the tusk update which introduced elliot mark 1.0.3

There is also Mathew the woolly mammoth, elliot's older cousin:

 

[A.T.]

The general approach:

 

[Mayhem]

Now color it in by integrating it!

 

[eltodesukane]

Elephant Walk (1954) (Director: William Dieterle)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046951/

 

[TeethWhitener]

Von Neumann’s take:
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elephant/