Prime factors of the first million integers visualized

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/22/prime-factors-of-the-first-mil.html

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Makes me think of a galactic core…

Or the game of Life with an R-pentomino start

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If you lied to me an told me that image and pull-quote explained string theory, I would (mis)understand string theory exactly as much as I did before.

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Yeah, if there was a low-dimensional manifold structure on this set, it would be fucking amazing. There probably isn’t, though. Regardless, it is pretty.

I wonder how much it would change if it didn’t ignore multiplicity.

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“this” link broken.

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I think this is it

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