Twelve Tones

[Andy44]

I stumbled upon this today, and I don't know what to say. This girl Vi Hart is either a complete and total genius or spent an awful lot of time making this video. Maybe both. Either way, this is impressive. Stick with it, it's long but it gets to a point and the ending is beautiful.

 

[Loru]

Simply epic

 

[Quick_Nick]

Watch the rest of her videos. This is the last mathy of all. She is no doubt some kind of genius. And puts quite a bit of work into the videos indeed. There's generally a dozen brief references every few seconds, and that's just the ones I catch. :lol:
My favorite may be the 3-part series on spirals and nature.

 

[Loru]

However composing anything with more than 6 tones is beyond my capability

 

[Andy44]

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_Hart"]Vi Hart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

She calls herself a "recreational mathemusician".

Yup, genius.

 

[N_Molson]

There is an incredible density of information in that video. When watching this, my brain very quickly triggers the master alarm : *DATA OVERFLOW* *DATA OVERFLOW* !!!

 

[Andy44]

My favorite may be the 3-part series on spirals and nature.

I just finished this. Pretty good, though not as mind-blowing as the 12 Tones.

Her line near the end is great, "That's why science is so much fun. You discover things that seem impossible to be true and then get to figure out why it's impossible for them not to be true."

 

[Izack]

Wow! Thanks for sharing this.

I agree on the information density. I had to skip back a couple of times because "Wait, what did you just say??"

Overall, though, it wasn't too hard to follow; we seem to have similar thought processes (though there is a huge disparity in wealth of knowledge, of course. )

 

[Scav]

Ritalin . . .

 

[Quick_Nick]

Sometimes, a bit of Vi Hart out of context is kind of scary. :lol:

 

[Andy44]

Sometimes, a bit of Vi Hart out of context is kind of scary. :lol:

Wow. It's like Syd Barrett without the drug problems.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Wow. It's like Syd Barrett without the drug problems.

Well, that one WAS on her secondary channel.

More math-ish:

 

[Andy44]

The latest Vi Hart awesomeness:

 

[Quick_Nick]

The latest Vi Hart awesomeness:

Doodling in Math Class: Dragon Dungeons - YouTube

And it's a Part 2, in case it seems even more weird and confusing than expected.

 

[Andy44]

I epsecially like her depiction of 4-dimensional people as having 3 eyes. Almost missed that. Makes sense when you think about it...

 

[Quick_Nick]

I epsecially like her depiction of 4-dimensional people as having 3 eyes. Almost missed that. Makes sense when you think about it...

Nice! I didn't catch that one. I was like "there's a reason she drew them like that... no, no, I'm reading too much into it". She has so many little unmentioned details in every video, it's crazy!

 

[Quick_Nick]

Finally, no more logarithms. *wink*

 

[Pablo49]

Wait, I missed a ViHart thread somehow?

ViHart is rad. Continue.

 

[Andy44]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-7tcTIrers"]How I Feel About Logarithms - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Ripley]

OMG!
I'm not a math inclined guy, but this girl's brain...smokes!