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Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images

Here are some of the pictures the photographer named Nikki Graziano have captured. Graziano, is a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, she 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. Once she’s got an image she likes, Graziano whips up the numbers and tweaks the function until the graph it describes aligns perfectly with the photograph. See more of her Found Functions series at Nikkigraziano.com.

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Omg yes. As a wannabe artsy fartsy engineer major this gives me a huge ladyboner. D: Like I try and tell people how awesome and interesting math is because of how it measures and models nature so well even if it’s a lot of work to understand. Believe me you start to see things in a new way once you get to a high enough math. On a semi-related note I had a Christian friend who said he felt bad for me as an atheist because I must see the world so dull, but in reality I think I see the world as extremely beautiful and complex and I know that all the tiny mediocre seeming events add up exponentially to have had me brought to life and live my time on Earth. And I find that super fascinating.