Kinematic boogaloo

Thu Oct 4, 2012 9:24 PM EDT

For some reason, illustrations of break dancers with mathematical notations have been showing up in the feeds I follow. I think the reason is that gifted French illustrator Florian Nicolle uploaded a gallery of them to his Behance account.

Florian Nicolle

I'm pretty sure most of the math is gibberish, though the axes and angles make it look sincere. He makes a bit of a joke with "5L Freeze," mid-page in the Behance gallery.

Matt Reedvia Facebook

E=mgh is the potential energy of a mass in a gravitational field. Unfortunately, they use the wrong value of "g". Little "g" is 9.8 m/s^2, the acceleration of gravity on Earth. What they used instead is Newton's gravitational constant, which is used to relate the mass of the (for example) Earth to what its gravitational pull should be. (g=GM/r^2, where M is the Earth's mass, G is Newton's constant, and r is the radius of the earth.)

So yes, it is gibberish, but only after the third line.

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#1 - Thu Oct 4, 2012 9:40 PM EDT

silligas

I'm hoping someone will use their creative genius to re-word Eminem's Slim Shady song and apply it to Romney's shape-shifting...."will the real Mitt Romney please stand up, please stand up?"

#2 - Thu Oct 4, 2012 10:24 PM EDT

Paul S. Campbell

I'm with granny, pie are not square!Pie are round ,cake are square.

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#3 - Thu Oct 4, 2012 10:41 PM EDT

Angel#77

This type of Art reminds me of the bananas chasing the apes. It stirs up your creative thoughts. It also reminds me of constellations. Looking through the black holes of stars is interesting too, with the naked eye.

#4 - Fri Oct 5, 2012 7:57 AM EDT

MeddlingMonk

Break dancing? Please, just let the '80s die.

#5 - Fri Oct 5, 2012 7:57 AM EDT

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