The Ticking Clock: A Geometric Interpretation of Modular Multiplicative Inverses
Stephen E. Erfle

Proceedings of Bridges 2023: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 243–250
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Abstract

This paper introduces users to a class of images created using the Electronic String Art model which was developed to encourage exploration of the relation between patterns: geometric, numeric, and artistic. These 60-second images are created using 60 identical subimages in which each subimage ends one vertex beyond the previous vertex, just like the second hand on a clock. This one vertex by one vertex clockwise movement is the geometric consequence of having two of the parameters being modular multiplicative inverses.

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