PICTURESQUE PRIMES

anatoly fomenko's 1971 "homotopy groups of spheres"

henry moore's "spindle piece" seen outside hayes hall, kenyon college

- my project for kenyon’s scientific computing seminar, spring 2023
- completed under the guidance of the wonderful Dr. Judy Holdener
- inspired by Zachary Abel’s 2016 work, these are “prime portraits”
(also inspired by just about everything Robert Bosch has done)
- the number given by reading the entire image as a number from left-to-right, top-to-bottom is a prime number
you read that correct! that means these are numbers with thousands of digits
lucky for us, large primes are nothing new, and these numbers pale in comparison to the top dogs
(but I’d like to see a Mersenne prime try to look like Weezer!)
why are we lucky? because we stand on the shoulders of giants!
aka many implementations of sort-of-but-not-really-that-fast primality algorithms
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PICTURESQUE PRIMES

^{terribly short sneak peak of a related project soon to come:}

^{stay tuned ^_^}