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.
>
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