Devon McCormick wrote:
> 
> It is an interesting picture but the pseudo-code falls short of fully
> describing the alogrithm.  The core of it is as follows (where "counter"
> is
> a prime):
> 
> let x = mod(counter,11);
> 
> if(x=1) move position up;
> else if(x=2) move position down;
> else if(x=3) move position right;
> else if(x=4) move position left;
> else if(x=5) move position up;
> 
> increment colour of pixel at position;
> 
> Besides illustrating the unnecessary wordiness of even conventional
> pseudo-code, it fails to specify what happens for the cases where x has
> the
> values six through ten (and zero).
> [...]
> 
I'd say that the pseudo-code specifies that in these 
cases no motion takes place, thus the increment is made at 
the current position, then cycle repeats with the next prime.

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