Photography AND math? Wow! I never thought of putting the two most boring things on Earth together! Brilliant!

it's not too big a step to got from looking for equations in your pictures to looking for messages from God/Aliens/the CIA.

Wait until they discover splines. Yes, the entire world is a conspiracy because you found a way to apply math ineffectively.

That was the dumbest thing to come from Gawker Media Assets since [any article authored by Jesus Diaz].

Seriously, though. Forget about Jesus; that was just stupid.

x = 3(4+y) * 2(6 - y) and y = elevendy
x = (12 + 3y) * (12 - 2y)
x = 144 + 12y - 6y²
x = 144 + twelvlendy - sixlevendyelevendy

Music is Math by Boards of Canada (new window)

Dracolich: Wait until they discover splines. Yes, the entire world is a conspiracy because you found a way to apply math ineffectively.

Or implicit functions. Her head asplodes.

32oz High Life: y=n

Golf clap.

As a math student, that has to be the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

There, I just saved her a lot of trouble.

I refuse to click an io9 link, but is it some pretentiously artsy no-talent hack blathering on about mathematical terms and concepts she clearly doesn't understand?

Bondith: I refuse to click an io9 link, but is it some pretentiously artsy no-talent hack blathering on about mathematical terms and concepts she clearly doesn't understand?

No, it's a series of pictures with graphs laid over them that greatly approximate the lines making up a portion of that picture.

There were words, but I didn't read them.

I was hoping for some sort of analysis, like "Pictures with this graph tend to be better received," or something. But alas, no.

The worst part is, most of the later pictures had an obvious simple graph you could overlay, but they instead chose a much more complex one.

Bondith: I refuse to click an io9 link, but is it some pretentiously artsy no-talent hack blathering on about mathematical terms and concepts she clearly doesn't understand?

FTFA:Graziano examines the shapes that appear in her photographs and overlays the mathematical functions that best describe them.

So she's trying to overlay trigonometric curves with pictures of mountain ranges and foliage, Kind of like when someone shows you a picture of a sunflower or a nautilus and how it shows the Fibonacci sequence, but with things that have no reason to align with a graphed curve.

I'll give subby 1.61803399 out of ten.

StrangeQ: [upload.wikimedia.org image 279x48]

There, I just saved her a lot of trouble.

Except for that pesky Gibbs phenomenon that occurs with pictures of buildings.

Y = .875 x pi

bingethinker: Let's calculate how many years it's been since she got laid.

Let's find her and just reset the clock.

zipdog: StrangeQ: [upload.wikimedia.org image 279x48]

There, I just saved her a lot of trouble.

Except for that pesky Gibbs phenomenon that occurs with pictures of buildings.

As long as all new buildings are constructed with infinitesimally inleaning walls so as to remove the jump discontinuity she'll be fine.

zipdog: StrangeQ: [upload.wikimedia.org image 279x48]

There, I just saved her a lot of trouble.

Except for that pesky Gibbs phenomenon that occurs with pictures of buildings.

That's what the sinc function is for!

11:15: Restate my assumptions.

1. Mathematics is the language of nature.
2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge.

Therefore, there are patterns everywhere.

/Really? I'm the first?

I thought it would be cool to replace the trees in a distant horizon with the top half of an analog recording. It would look like a forest line, yet you might have an urge to worship satan.

Um, anyone with basic understanding of a TI-83 calculator can plug in data points and derive a function that approximates the shape. Show me the real "math" that's going on here