Prime Portraits
Zachary Abel

Proceedings of Bridges 2016: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Education, Culture
Pages 359–362
Short Papers

Abstract

We introduce a versatile method for finding prime numbers that display surprisingly intricate visual patterns— hypothetically, any desired pattern is possible, with only mild distortion. We use this method to locate several examples of large prime numbers that are, in and of themselves, self-referential works of art.

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