Maths in Natural Form

February 8th, 2010

Maths in Nature - artist and mathematician Nikki Graziano has a rather nice selection of images of so-called ‘found functions’, or superimpositions of graphed functions over shapes in nature.

Maths in Nature

Some of them look a little contrived, but nevertheless almost give you the idea of the numbers that lie just below the surface of everything. And that The God of Whizz likes.

(via Kottke.org)


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