Encounters of the 2nd Kind

At the Mayhem Mathematics Institute, Italian Mathematician Claude Lacombi, his American interpreter and mapmaker, I.M. Laughing, along with some other very important people discovered a new line in their model of the 2nd dimension. They called it Line 19. One of the VIPs (who has yet to be named) discovered that it was the same line that had gone missing 30 years earlier. 

They also found a lost dot in the far stretches of the 2nd dimension. Wondering about what caused these objects to appear, Lacombi and Laughing - along with a group of mathematics specialists - dove deeper into the appearances of such objects. 

Dots and lines were popping up everywhere! This was causing even the media to get involved. Laughing, in good humor, joked about how aliens could be the cause of these lines. Little would he know that his simple comment would spark the making of a new movie.  

As the media frenzy died down, the mathematicians were able to resume their work. Taking his work home with him, Lamcombi's three-year old son, Barry, pointed out that all of the lines and dots, when combined, made a picture. 

Looking at their research from the perspective of his son, Lacombi saw it, too. The 2nd dimension actually created a new shape, a smily face.