Found Functions

It’s one thing to have a neat idea like this; it’s another to exe­cute it so per­fectly. The quiet images, the chalky lines… all just so. Click through for the whole series.

I think I’m going to go take walk on Clement Street now and hunt for parabolas.

(Via Nat Tork­ing­ton.)

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Tim says:
February 17, 2010 at 1:33 pm
I had a thought about some­thing like this a while ago. When we talk about things hav­ing “a math­e­mat­i­cal struc­ture,” we mean some­thing like this — that its shape or motion or per­mu­ta­tions can be described with a com­par­a­tively sim­ple math­e­mat­i­cal formula. 
The sim­plic­ity is the key — because it’s so sim­ple to describe, the for­mula appears to NAME what’s hap­pened in some weird sense.
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