# How (and why) to take a logarithm of an image

**Published:** October 14, 2026
**Author:** 3Blue1Brown
**Source:** YouTube — Andrej Karpathy
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/how-and-why-to-take-a-logarithm-of-an-image

[Submit subtitle corrections at criblate.com] Whenever I'm making one of these videos, there's sometimes a special moment where the act of animating involves solving a whole bunch of little technical puzzlers, and then the underlying math I'm trying to explain clicks for me in a…

> From the original source: **YouTube — Andrej Karpathy**
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