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pwrmac
3rd of February 2010 (Wed), 09:54
Thought I would share this because to me its brilliant.

It's nice to see that someone is able to utilize both the right and left side of the brain when creating images. Quite unique.



"Most of us can’t tell our secant from our cotangent. But the forms are everywhere, and Nikki Graziano wants to help us see them. Graziano, a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photos. “I wanted to create something that could communicate how awesome math is, to everyone,” she says. Graziano doesn’t go out looking for a specific function but lets one find her instead......"

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/pl_arts_found/

RadAL
5th of February 2010 (Fri), 02:35
too much time on her hands! lol

FlyingPhotog
5th of February 2010 (Fri), 02:42
Can't speak to the formulae involved but I've no doubt we all see those kinds of patterns in what we shoot every day...