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[[File:Rotoscope.png|thumb|Artist- | [[File:Don Tasmian calibrating a Rotoscope scrying engine.png|thumb|Artist-Engineer Don Tasmian using a Rotoscope as [[scrying engine]] emulator. Tasmian was among the first artist-researchers to realized the artistic potential of [[Scrying engine|scrying engines]].]]'''Donald Tasmian''' (?-?) is an Artist-Engineer and [[mathematician]] known for discovering [[diagramaceous soil]], and for making fundamental improvements to the design and calibration of [[scrying engine]] technology. | ||
]]'''Donald Tasmian''' (?-?) is an | |||
Tasmian is credited with coining the phrase "[[outsider mathematics]]". | Tasmian is credited with coining the phrase "[[outsider mathematics]]". | ||
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== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
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File:Turbulent Head.png|link=Turbulent Head|Don Tasmian says that best-known work, ''[[Turbulent Head]]'', "was not intended as a self-portrait, although it seems to have turned out that way." | |||
File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|Tasmian runs [[Computation (nonfiction)|computations]] on [[Diagramaceous soil]], discovers new [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|Bingo algorithms]]. | File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|Tasmian runs [[Computation (nonfiction)|computations]] on [[Diagramaceous soil]], discovers new [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|Bingo algorithms]]. | ||
File:Thought camera.jpg|link=Scrying engine|[[Scrying engine]]. | File:Thought camera.jpg|link=Scrying engine|Tasmian publishes do-it-yourself plans for entirely new type of [[Scrying engine]]. | ||
File:Adolf Woelfli.jpg|link=Outsider art (nonfiction)|[[Outsider art (nonfiction)|Outsider artist]] has no sympathy for [[Outsider mathematics|outsider mathematicians]]. | File:Adolf Woelfli.jpg|link=Outsider art (nonfiction)|[[Outsider art (nonfiction)|Outsider artist]] has no sympathy for [[Outsider mathematics|outsider mathematicians]]. | ||
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== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Diagramaceous soil]] | |||
* [[Outsider mathematics]] | * [[Outsider mathematics]] | ||
* [[Mathematics]] | * [[Mathematics]] |
Latest revision as of 11:10, 2 April 2017
Donald Tasmian (?-?) is an Artist-Engineer and mathematician known for discovering diagramaceous soil, and for making fundamental improvements to the design and calibration of scrying engine technology.
Tasmian is credited with coining the phrase "outsider mathematics".
In the News
Don Tasmian says that best-known work, Turbulent Head, "was not intended as a self-portrait, although it seems to have turned out that way."
Tasmian runs computations on Diagramaceous soil, discovers new Bingo algorithms.
Tasmian publishes do-it-yourself plans for entirely new type of Scrying engine.
Outsider artist has no sympathy for outsider mathematicians.