transform
Original: transform on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with reddish flame-like hair): In mathematics, we often use the Fourier transform. You take a hard problem, you do a hard problem, convert it to an easier problem, solve that problem, then convert back.
Panel 2:
Woman (with dark hair): Our relationship was the hard problem you carried on me.
Panel 3:
Man: What if we convert that to "do we love each other," solve that problem, then convert back?
Woman: I do love you.
Man: Then we've solved it!
Panel 4 (caption bar reads "LATER"):
Woman (in voiceover/narration, shown looking weary): It took me years to realize I was in a mathematically abusive relationship.
Votey:
Text with a downward arrow flowchart:
BE FUNNY
(arrow pointing down)
MAKE MATH JOKE
Man (with reddish flame-like hair): In mathematics, we often use the Fourier transform. You take a hard problem, you do a hard problem, convert it to an easier problem, solve that problem, then convert back.
Panel 2:
Woman (with dark hair): Our relationship was the hard problem you carried on me.
Panel 3:
Man: What if we convert that to "do we love each other," solve that problem, then convert back?
Woman: I do love you.
Man: Then we've solved it!
Panel 4 (caption bar reads "LATER"):
Woman (in voiceover/narration, shown looking weary): It took me years to realize I was in a mathematically abusive relationship.
Votey:
Text with a downward arrow flowchart:
BE FUNNY
(arrow pointing down)
MAKE MATH JOKE
Alt text
A four-panel comic. In the first panel, a man with reddish flame-like hair explains to a woman that in mathematics you use the Fourier transform: take a hard problem, convert it to an easier problem, solve that, then convert back. In the second panel the woman replies that their relationship was the hard problem he carried on her. In the third panel he suggests converting it to the easier problem "do we love each other," solving that, then converting back; she says "I do love you," and he declares "Then we've solved it!" The fourth panel, labeled LATER, shows the woman looking weary as she narrates: "It took me years to realize I was in a mathematically abusive relationship." The votey aftercomic is a simple hand-drawn flowchart in a box reading "BE FUNNY" with an arrow pointing down to "MAKE MATH JOKE."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.