Or, adapting the subtitle: Brain scans reveal simple 3D grid structure

Agree that the current editorialized HN title (Beautiful math: Human brain Connectome project) is nonsensical. The word "math" doesn't appear in the article at all, for example.

The particular finding in the article is just the most recent insight from next generation DSI computational modeling breakthroughs. The article highlights the hardware/device engineering, but the real news is that by using these new modeling techniques, nearly all modern MRI scanners can benefit, largely unmodified.

As someone who works at the intersection of informatics & device engineering, I find these visualizations stunning.

And the embedded video in the article is not just eye candy, it actually represents a class of diagnostic tools that didn't exist a couple of years ago.

Guilty as charged on a modest bit of editorializing; just google DSI or its related cousin Diffusion Tensor Imaging and tell me that's not pretty cool.

As for "no math" mentioned in the article, that is true. But a cursory search for the terms tensor or fractional anisotropy and weighted trajectory projection models will quickly reveal just how much math is involved, regardless of a press release that glosses over that fact.