A day or two ago I was visiting the article on asemic writing at Wikipedia and just an hour or so ago (it’s now 5:41 P.M., Saturday, here in Port Charlotte, Florida) it must have inspired me, for, yow, I created the greatest of the new arts of this century (tah dah): anumeric mathematics, a sibling of asemic writing, for it is visual art using mathematical symbols (including numbers, of course) that makes no mathematically sense. Two samples follow:

Yes, many painters have made paintings using numbers, but they didn’t call it . . . anumeric mathematics!

Frankly, when I came up with the name, I considered it a joke. When I made the top anumeric mathematics piece quickly after that, I no longer considered it a joke. I feel you can do a lot of interesting things in the genre, or whatever.  Colored math is the first thing to seemed extremely promising to me. The central value is giving the viewer a work that should put him into the mathematical section of his brain at the same time it puts him in the visual sections of his brain. Manywhere-at-Once.

I’m definitely ridiculously over-excited by this. So far, though, it’s fun stuff!

Notes for posterity: I haven’t thought of titles for either piece but will. The first uses part of my “Mathemaku for Ezra Pound,” slightly altered, as background, the second one of the images I recently posted here with part of one of the works of 17th-Century German calligraphy I showed two samples of here recently layered over it with two symbols from my “symbolic” font file. Oh, and I should cite Sue Simon as an influence. I’ve had paintings of hers that could be considered anumeric mathematics in my Scientific American blog. The one I had of hers in my most recent one, however, has an actual equation, so is not anumeric. I can’t remember whether she had readable math in the others, not that it’s important.

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