Jason Padgett, a 41-year-old college dropout who worked at a futon store, sustained a brain injury during a mugging at a karaoke club in Tacoma – the muggers were after his $99 leather jacket. Little did he know that this brain injury would change his life completely. A day or two after the injury, Jason began seeing “bits and pieces of the Pythagorean theorem everywhere.” He’s currently working with MIT researchers on developing a fractal energy source. Continue reading for a video, more pictures of his fractals, and additional information.



The diagrams he draws are called fractals and Padgett can draw a visual representation of the formula Pi, that infinite number that begins with 3.14. Jason Padgett’s drawing of Pi. “A fractal is a shape that when you take the shape a part into pieces, the pieces are the same or similar to the whole. So say I had 1,000 pictures of you, that were little and I put all those little pictures of you in the right spot to make the exact same picture of you, but bigger,” he explained.

Fractal Pictures

Padgett doesn’t have a PhD, a college degree or even a background in math. His talent was born out of a true medical mystery that scientists around the world are still trying to unravel. A scan of Padgett’s brain showed damage that was forcing his brain to overcompensate in certain areas that most people don�t have access to, Brogaard explained. The result was Padgett was now an acquired savant, meaning brilliant in a specific area.

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