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.)
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.
but alas the snark was a boojum. Are we talkin numeric onomatopoeia? Let x=x or murmur? Manor or grammar?