Tag: Looking Outwards Week 2

Wheel of Primes – Mario Klingemann

This project was created to demonstrate a new type of visualization involving Prime Numbers and their positioning on linear rays when the natural numbers are aligned along a Fermat spiral. I thought that this was inspirational through its demonstration of how a key mathematic principle can be boiled down to something so orderly and beautiful at such a large scale even if it’s hard to comprehend at a molecular level. I think the author was able to convey his artistic sensibilities through this display as he mentioned that he did not come across anything like it before, showing not only his creativity in finding this pattern, but also in expressing it. The artist actually included part of the algorithm in the blog and explained the process he went about to create it. But for the ret of the algorithm, I believe he took the numbers generated from the initial algorithm and just formatted them alongside the circle.