I really like this at home strike branding that Roo and No_Pants did on Allana using an Allen Key and a stove, because to most it will just look like random scars, but for math geeks… recognize the sequence?
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57 responses to “Branding for Math Geek Girls”
Is that the Fibonacci sequence?
Fibonacci sequence perhaps?
oh i get it!
its a bunch or random lines and dots…
Don’t think so, the gaps are too small in places.
Ya boy Fib!
Actually i’m an idiot it is
Fibonacci sequence ^.^
I love the placement of “ModBlog”
Hehe, you could have linked that “recognize the sequence” – you featured Elizabeth`s tattoo not too long ago: https://www.bme.com/news/2008/01/23/math-geek-pinup/
I don’t see it somehow.
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Explain?!
Well, that didn’t look like how it meant to.
Fibbonacci’s Sequence goes as follows:
1 1 2 4 8 16 32…
The brand goes as follows:
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i don’t think you need to be a math geek to know that that’s the Fibonacci sequence. 😛
whats so special about the fib numbers anyways?
There have been a lot of fibonacci sequences lately! haha. But it does also look like DNA electrophoresis.
One of it’s significant features, I think, is you can use it to calculate PHI (The Golden Ratio) 1.618…
I was about to say the same thing Laurel…It looks like a good ladder!
ever since Dan Brown wrote Da Vinci Code, Fibonacci Sequence stopped being geeky 😉
However, if Shannon hadn’t asked what it is and given the math geek clue, how many would have got it? 1? 2? People on the street will be like…why are there lines on your arm….
Lol this is the second time I’ve seen the Fibonacci sequence in the last two minutes, on two completely unrelated websites! Cool though 😀
Ania – The good thing is Allana was geeky long before Dan Brown.
She was born geeky. She is a geek.
That’s why we love her.
Roo – I was rather thinking that if I know what Fibonacci sequence is, then it really is not THAT geeky; I’m probably the least geeky person out there:P
however, I can totally respect Allana’s geekiness 🙂
It took me a time to see how this is the Fibonacci sequence… Finally, it makes sense… lines on 0-1-2-3-5-8-13-21(considering the two 1s drawn one above the other).
But still, the perfectionist in me thinks the distance between 5 and 8 it’s a bit small.
Nice idea, all-in-all
ha, nice
i thought it was the different ev ratings for electron shells
sigh fib is boring
Well, its geeky enough for me! She explained it, and I thought it was the Liberace sequence. Yup, I’m just that educated.
Got to be something to do with Gay singers… it is Allana after all
I know the ModBlog logo was photoshopped in there, but I think that would be an awesome shirt.
That’s kinda funny, Fibonacci was my first thought but I didn’t see how I would possibly recognize it if you didn’t drop that whole math geek clue. But then again, after reading that clue I had my doubts, since a bunch of nicks measured out like so seemed a bit not so math geeky. So far as I know, my lot sees things a bit more symbolically than on an invisible number line.
My thought is that if you’re going to get a math tattoo, it’s best you not go with something that is quite infinite. I can see perhaps a Koch curve or something, but marking off a sequence and stopping at 21 (or wherever that bizarre sort of scar is supposed to mean) because your arm is too short is just a tad silly.
I like how ModBlog was put on her laptop = ]
This branding is to geeky for me, but I like it!
Laurel and Heather, I also think it looks like a DNA gel. Very nice though.
modblog shirts would rock.
nerdy tattoos rock, especially the ones I don’t entirely understand.
@27 ha! Koch curve sounds extremely geeky!
Damn the Da Vinci code.
#14. That’s what I thought at first too! Being a biology(ish) major it jumped out to me as a gel electrophoresis before the fib sequence hit.
P.S. – It’s my laptop.
I’m pretty sure that’s not the Fibonacci sequence. It looks like it’s going 1, 1, 2, 4 which would be wrong.
It looks like a logarithmic scale to me.
#11 – no, that’s the sequence of powers of two. Possibly geekier.
[email protected] #14 and #33 – guess I”m not the only person who spends too much time in lab. I’ve DREAMED about running gels these past two weeks.
Maybe it’s the way her skin stretches, but it looks wrong for Fibonacci. Regardless of whether I look at the brands or the spaces between them, the spacing doesn’t look like it makes the right numbers.
I see 1, 1, 2, 4 as well. Unless I misread: not Fibonacci.
I thought Zeno’s dichotomy paradox, but only because me and my friend were talking about his desire for that branding yesterday.
Definately not actually the fibonacci as in fib every number is the sum of the two before it as such- 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13……so forth and forthwith.
This is more so about the twoses…
Also there is a highly entertaining mathgeek webcomic that has a strip on it. Xkcd….http://xkcd.com/289/
The fibonacci sequence is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. You add the previous two numbers to get the next, and you start out with 1 twice. These brands confuse me a bit, because it really doesn’t look like the Fib numbers to me. The gaps between brands look like 1, 1, 1/2, 1/2, 1/4, 1/4, 1/4. Far too regular looking, to me.
Although.. reading it again, maybe inherit_the_winds has it right. I agree though, the perfectionist in me insists that either 5 and 8 are too close, or 3 and 5 are too far. The artist in me insists that it’s a lovely branding regardless of how I interpret it.
Yeah, I meant you start out with 0, 1. I’ve had professors argue endlessly about the proper initial conditions for the Fibonacci sequence, and even I still mix it up. Doh.
I have that book 🙂
if you take that the initial 0 has been excluded, and the rebranding 1 twice the marks on her arm look like 0 1 (1) 2 3 5 8 13 21. the measurements aren’t so clear in the photo, it’s possible she also had to shorten them to fit a little.
sorry 22, just read your post. there are two 1s, btw , but i don’t see how branding it twice would prove much 😛
sorry the initial 0 wasn’t excluded, one of the 1s was.
I too went the DNA route 🙂
TrinityVA’s right, the (first) Fibonacci numbers are 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34…
Not 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32…
i simply don’t see it, the spacing seems to me as though she’s spelling out 1, 1, 2, 4 (or possibly 5, looks like that 2nd to last line is botched)
Either way it appears in no way to be the fib sequence. I’m gonna put my guess with #36 on the powers of 2
Woo! I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought of DNA gels when they looked at it 🙂
The fibonacci sequence would look like this
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And the scars seemes to be i this sequence
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I hope this illustrates how dumb most of you are, so I don’t have to be mean about it.