Beautiful Mind - Jason Padgett and Fractals

**Alundil** · 04-30-12, 04:56 PM

Buddy of mine just told me about this story. Pretty freaking cool.

Real ‘Beautiful Mind’: College Dropout Became Mathematical Genius After Mugging (PHOTOS) - ABC News

Working behind the counter at a futon store in Tacoma, Wash., is not the place you would expect to find a man some call a mathematical genius of unprecedented proportions.
Jason Padgett, 41, sees complex mathematical formulas everywhere he looks and turns them into stunning, intricate diagrams he can draw by hand. He’s the only person in the world known to have this incredible skill, which he obtained by sheer accident just a decade ago.

Jason Padgett - Fine Art

His is currently studying how all fractals arise from limits and how E=MC2 is itself a fractal. When he first started drawing he had no traditional math training and could only draw what he saw as math. Eventually a physicist saw his drawings and helped him get traditional mathematics training to be able to describe in equations the complex geometry of his drawings. He is currently a student studying mathematics in Washington state where he is learning traditional mathematics so he can better describe what he sees in a more traditional form. Many of the captions were written before he had any traditional math training. His drawing of E=MC^2 is based on the structure of space time at the quantum level and is based on the concept that there is a physical limit to observation which is the Planck length. It shows how at the smallest level, the structure of space time is a fractal. He does his own fractal diagrams and can also create new ones by request.

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**Xavsnipe** · 04-30-12, 04:58 PM

holy shit

**DR.F33LG00D** · 04-30-12, 06:43 PM

That's badass!

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**Derek** · 05-01-12, 05:03 AM

Nice art that I'm sure some people would pay good money for (and would make a killer desktop background!) But being able to draw geometric shapes does not make you a mathematical genius. Also, none of the pictures shown were fractals.

**Alundil** · 05-01-12, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by Derek

Nice art that I'm sure some people would pay good money for (and would make a killer desktop background!) But being able to draw geometric shapes does not make you a mathematical genius. Also, none of the pictures shown were fractals.

ummm . I think you missed the point. Did you read the article or just look at pictures?

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**Alundil** · 05-01-12, 07:46 AM

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0GE.../preview?pli=1

Link to research paper on him specifically.

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**Bunni** · 05-01-12, 08:03 AM

Huh, clearly the artical author does not get out much. welcome to the modern day ruled by idiots and
made for idiots; anyone else does not fit in.

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**Alundil** · 05-01-12, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by Bunni

Huh, clearly the artical author does not get out much. welcome to the modern day ruled by idiots and
made for idiots; anyone else does not fit in.

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Which article/author?

**Alundil** · 05-01-12, 08:41 AM

Originally Posted by Derek

Also, none of the pictures shown were fractals.

Also - are you sure about that? How good is your understanding of what a fractal is? Or what shapes or designs can be produced by fractals without the item produced itself being a fractal?

This is a mountain. Generated entirely by fractals.

**Bunni** · 05-01-12, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by Alundil

Which article/author?

Working behind the counter at a futon store in Tacoma, Wash., is not the place you would expect to find a man some call a mathematical genius of unprecedented proportions.

That, crap irritates me so much. Its quite rare that any <160 IQ's have any meaningful jobs. Which IMO is a result of our societies current structure (disregards anyone who is not the norm, ie on the lower end of the IQ scale as well as those on the higher end).