# Writers & artists: tell us about your supreme works of nerdom

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 18, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-artists-tell-us-about-your-supreme-works-of-nerdom/503393 "2009-07-18T00:17:50Z")\
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> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#):
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> [If you learn how to knit,](http://geeknits.blogspot.com/2007/07/publish-or-perish.html) you could make a pacman scarf.

Forget scarves. Try [knitted animation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO0-1GKXZEA). 🙂

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-artists-tell-us-about-your-supreme-works-of-nerdom/503393/22 "2009-07-23T00:39:15Z")

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I made a sweatshirt for Halloween. I got a black sweatshirt and a bottle of sorta-3D white ink. Using this, I drew a picture of the construction of the mathematical curve known as the **Witch of Agnesi**

> **[Witch of Agnesi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_of_Agnesi)**
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> In mathematics, the witch of Agnesi (Italian pronunciation: \[aɲˈɲeːzi, -eːsi; -ɛːzi\]) is a cubic plane curve defined from two diametrically opposite points of a circle. It gets its name from Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi, and from a mistranslation of an Italian word for a sailing sheet. Before Agnesi, the same curve was studied by Fermat, Grandi, and Newton.
> The graph of the derivative of the arctangent function forms an example of the witch of Agnesi. As the probability density f...

I did my best to make the construction look like that "stickman figure used as a symbol in the movie mentioned below. Then I lettered it, making the lettering resemble that on the movie poster for _The Blair Witch Prokject_. Only, of course, it said:

**The Witch of Agnesi Project**

I have worn that shirt to science fiction conventions, to MIT, and to parties filled with highly technical people. Not one single person seems to have recognized it.

Although it’s possible that some of them do, and think it’s so silly that they don’t want to encourage me with comments.

Naaah. They _can’t_ all be that discreet. he joke’s just too obscure.

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