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July 24, 2012

On the Pattern of Primes

Filed under: Graphics,Visualization — Patrick Durusau @ 3:32 pm

On the Pattern of Primes by Jason Davies.

From the webpage:

For each natural number n, we draw a periodic curve starting from the origin, intersecting the x-axis at n and its multiples. The prime numbers are those that have been intersected by only two curves: the prime number itself and one.

Below the currently highlighted number, we also show its sum of divisors σ(n), and its aliquot sum s(n) = σ(n) – n, which indicate whether the number is prime, deficient, perfect or abundant.

A very compelling pattern visualization.

What other number or semantic patterns would you visualize?

I first saw this at Information Aesthetics.

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