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How to Express Genesis One as Code?

posted by LaminatorX on Friday August 14 2015, @01:17PM   
from the Deus-ex-Machina dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

I had an interesting idea the other day that chapter one of Genesis didn't make much sense physically, but could as computer code. I wrote an R script that does accomplish this to some extent. The end result I got was impressive visually, but my code was not that faithful to the instructions. Here is how I interpreted the first two verses:

###In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
#install.packages("sphereplot")
require(sphereplot)

##Create Heavens
rgl.sphgrid(radius = 5, col.long="", col.lat="",
                        deggap = 15, longtype = "D", add = T, radaxis=F)

http://postimg.org/image/3wvx1cvpd/

##Create Earth
rgl.sphgrid(radius = 1, col.long='', col.lat='',
                        deggap = 15, longtype = "D",add = T, radaxis=F)

http://postimg.org/image/he6w4kx19/

[ED NOTE: These links go to the images output by his code, which is neat, but the image host has some ads that, while not pornographic, may not be safe for work in all settings. Use your judgement. -LaminatorX]

##Now the earth was formless and empty,

##darkness was over the surface of the deep,
bg3d(color=c("darkslategray3","Black"),
          fogtype="exp2", sphere=TRUE, back="fill")

http://postimg.org/image/j3wikf68f/

##and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
view3d(phi=90, theta=180, zoom=.55)

http://postimg.org/image/9aazwxjkd/

Does Soylent have any other ideas on how to interpret these two verses? More verses to come if there is any interest.

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• Alternate interpretation Alternate interpretation (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @02:12PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @02:12PM (#222825)

  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

  # emerge heavens
  # emerge earth

  Now the earth was formless and empty

  # file earth
  earth: empty

  darkness was over the surface of the deep

  # xgamma
  -> Red  0.000, Green  0.000, Blue  0.000

  and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters

  # whoami
  root

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• Re:Alternate interpretation (Score: 2, Funny) by Balderdash on Friday August 14 2015, @02:24PM

  by Balderdash (693) on Friday August 14 2015, @02:24PM (#222831)

  sudo make me a sandwich

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• Re:Alternate interpretation (Score: 2, Funny) by throwaway28 on Friday August 14 2015, @04:39PM

  by throwaway28 (5181) on Friday August 14 2015, @04:39PM (#222893) Journal

  Let there be light: and there was light.

  xgamma -rgamma 0.7 -ggamma 0.7 -bgamma 0.7

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