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[[File:Rotoscope.png|thumb|Artist-researcher 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]].
[[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 artist-researcher known for his work with [[Scrying engine|Scrying engines]] and [[Diagramaceous soil]].


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

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 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.

Tasmian is credited with coining the phrase "outsider mathematics".

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference