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by mturmon 1674 days ago
But it turns out that if you believe math is everywhere, then creating videos or cartoons to illustrate math concepts is actually kind of reasonable.

For instance, my kid drew a rather detailed human face in the desmos (http://desmos.com) graphing program using line segments, quadratics, cosines, and sines.

Doing this teaches you about what the graphs of these functions look like, and how to translate/scale/rotate the axes to get the curve you want.

It's basically like parametric typography, or SVG.

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Pretty neat, but I'd say that is different than a selfie-video. Those can be very creative as we all know, but that's what art class is for.