https://github.com/blittle/prime-workers

https://github.com/blittle/presentations/tree/master/prime-workers

AJ ONeal
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:57 AM, AJ ONeal <[email protected]> wrote:

> This function is plotting prime numbers.
>
> http://bretlittle.org:5050/
>
> The centermost dot is 1 and then it plots concentric squares increasing by
> 1 in counter-clockwise fashion.
>
> Prime numbers are dark navy
> numbers with few factors are blue
> numbers with several factors are light blue
> numbers with a huge number of factors are white
>
> If you zoom out a few steps and refresh you'll start to see a pattern that
> would look really great in a suit if you swapped out the blues for charcoal
> grey threads (and as a bonus it'll make your cpu really hot).
>
> Although you can't look at it and guarantee which numbers will be prime,
> it certainly gives you some clear directions in which to guess.
>
> Has Bret Little brought us 1 step closer to discovering prime numbers
> quickly?
>
> AJ ONeal
>
> P.S. (he'll be posting the code on github shortly)
>
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