Yes, you're probably right. It just looks like a gap to me. That, combined with the repetition of the "up" case, jars my sense of aesthetics.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Viktor Cerovski <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Prime-number-nebula-tp27062900s24193p27065905.html > Sent from the J Chat mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
