Photographer Nikki Graziano takes pictures and then creates graphs of mathematical functions which map nicely to elements of the image. It's a very neat and beautiful way of combining math, nature, and art together into a single image.
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.
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by thalin.
Not even a very interesting gimmick, at that.