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Animated Factorisation Diagrams
- cgrinds 14y agoFor those saying it breaks or ends at 10000. It doesn't if you append infinity like so http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/?infinity http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization... I also like how you can enable turbo by pressing the fast-forward button several times...
- migfromparis 14y agoReally nice. What rendering engine or library do you use?
- ygra 14y agoThis looks homegrown. The source code [1] is fairly readable. New dots seem to enter the world in the position of the last dot placed but below them. Position and size seem to follow a simple linear movement between frames. I wonder though, why is this done with canvas instead of SVG. Just to cut down on the number of DOM elements? [1] http://www.datapointed.net/media/2012/10/factor_min.js http://www.datapointed.net/media/2012/10/factor_min.js
- misiti3780 14y agod3.js ?
- louischatriot 14y agoWow. Really impressed, I got stuck on it for a good 5 minutes !
- arethuza 14y agoThat appears to work like a denial of service attack on my brain - I was sitting here quite hypnotized until a colleague asked me what on earth I was doing.
- Sumaso 14y ago"Is that the InfoSheet Generator you've been working on!?!?!?!" "...no..." :(
- robmclarty 14y agoomg I know! I was ready to leave multiple times but something prevented me from moving my mouse and I starred at it for five minutes. It is number porn.
- JonnieCache 14y agoI can imagine using it to trap geeks in the same way that the cat gets trapped by mirrors in red dwarf.
- tribeofone 14y agoLOL
- ChuckMcM 14y agoIt would be an extremely bad idea to match that with the open riff to Gangnam Style :-)
- saraid216 14y agoObligatory http://xkcd.com/356/ http://xkcd.com/356/
- harscoat 14y agoHypnotic. I'll show it to kids, so that they visualize numbers. Edit: Thank you awesome job! I am not closing that tab.
- Aardwolf 14y agoBefore I click, is this safe for work or not? Thanks.
- tanepiper 14y agoTIL Prime numbers form circles (or maybe I knew that, but it's been 15 years since high school math)
- sina 14y agoA "circle" could be formed with any number of dots.
- warpspeed 14y agoDare you to make a circle with 2 dots.
- sina 14y agoIt won't be a perfect circle. You could only create a perfect circle with infinitely many dots, no less.
- jimrhoskins 14y agoDraw a circle that intersects both dots. Done. Before you say that it should be just a line, let me say that it doesn't break the rules that say you can "draw" a circle with 100 or 12 or 7 dots. The dots don't form a circle but rather fall on the line of a circle your mind draws. Since there is nothing truly between the dots, the "true" shape could jut out and form a corner or any other shape, just like it could be a line between the two dots. The circle isn't really there in any circle of n points, so n=2 (and n=1 for that matter) work just fine.
- warpspeed 14y agoThe original post used the term "formed," and I used "make," both with the intent of using only dots to create a circle. I would say you have "included" two dots in your circle, with this new line being the main element. With all due respect.
- jackalope 14y agoActually, I can make any circle with 2 dots (points): From Wikipedia: A circle can be defined as the curve traced out by a point that moves so that its distance from a given point is constant.
- firesofmay 14y agoHypnotic. I kept staring at it for no reason!
- sold 14y agosee also http://mathlesstraveled.com/2012/10/05/factorization-diagrams/ http://mathlesstraveled.com/2012/10/05/factorization-diagram... and http://mathlesstraveled.com/2012/11/05/more-factorization-diagrams/ http://mathlesstraveled.com/2012/11/05/more-factorization-di...
- Avitas 14y agoHere is another fascinating visualization that I'm sure will ring a bell for some of you. For those that haven't seen this type of explanation, it's really neat. Eduardo's explanation both easy-to-read--hey, he's a writer--and detailed. http://www.sievesofchaos.com/ http://www.sievesofchaos.com/
- fglktyu 14y agoThis should be made into a ballet.
- AmVess 14y agoDalek ballet. At least, that's how my brain feels now.
- jasondavies 14y agoSee also: http://www.jasondavies.com/factorisation-diagrams/ http://www.jasondavies.com/factorisation-diagrams/
- k2xl 14y agoHow can I make this my screensaver?
- d23 14y agoCan we stop the trend of calling everything "porn"?
- antidoh 14y agoEventually. Fun has fashion, just like everything else.
- ramblerman 14y agoI agree. mental masturbation seems more appropriate here.
- jgrahamc 14y agoThe porn analogy: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/04/porn-analogy.html http://blog.jgc.org/2009/04/porn-analogy.html
- schiffern 14y agoWow, what a terrible article. The disingenuity is astounding. >Pornography is fake. True, but that's not why the analogy is used. Pornography is a visual media that conveys some of the pleasure of an act without the viewer actually going through the effort of doing it. >Pornography's aim is to sexually excite the viewer. Are geeks sexually excited by the eBay data?… >pleasure comes from many things that are non-sexual such as eating… >So let's swap 'geek porn' for a 'geek feast'. But why isn't "feast" defined symmetrically? A feast's aim is to gastronomically excite the user. Are geeks gastronomically excited by the eBay data? The whole rant is semantic nonsense, defining words in a way that begs the question. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a good rant. I just like my rants to make sense. The real reason not to use the Porn Analogy is stuffed in the last paragraph: "Many people are uncomfortable with pornography and don't want pornography analogies in professional work."
- JonnieCache 14y ago>Wow, what a terrible article. The disingenuity is astounding. Be aware that the person youre replying to is the person who wrote the article. I do think you're right though, and I'd be interested to hear jgc's response.
- zllak 14y agoTotally hypnotic! Perfect :)
- nadam 14y agoIncredible compression scheme for a class of drawings :)
- pranavk 14y agobreaks at 10000
- GoldiKam 14y agoSuper awesome
- jgrahamc 14y agoSee also my 'Make your own prime factorization diagram' blog post: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/04/make-your-own-prime-factorization.html http://blog.jgc.org/2012/04/make-your-own-prime-factorizatio...
- nagrom 14y agoI went up a level to http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/ http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/ and was thoroughly disappointed to be 403'd. Are there more available?
- binarymax 14y agoYou gave up much too quickly! Going up another level to http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/ http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/ offers a variety of creations.
- cientifico 14y agoI want a clock with that !!!
- thirit 14y agoI like how the div that contains the whole thing is called enchilada.
- kelechizy 14y agolove this
- jader201 14y agoI was disappointed to see it end (at 10000). :(
- svonsvon 14y agoI capped it at 10000 to prevent someone from accidentally leaving it on fast-forward and wedging their browser. Try this if you want to go farther: http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/?infinity http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization...
- chimpinee 14y agoBrilliant! Feature request: audio track speaking the numbers as they appear UPDATE: 'Popcorn', the electronic pop instrumental, might do too, with the counting synched to the beat
- tripzilch 14y agoNot Kraftwerk's Numbers? :) Or perhaps Boards Of Canada's Aquarius, I wonder what the factorization of sixty-ten looks like :)
- LinaLauneBaer 14y agoAwesome! Now I would love to be able to zoom in... any plans on adding this?
- SiVal 14y agoFeature request: single step. The only way I can slow it down enough to explain it to my kids is to stop it, and it stops in random (usually mangled) states. I wish I could single step it.
- japhyr 14y agoI teach math, and I am definitely showing this to my class today! I am pretty sure this will help some students make sense of prime numbers for the first time in their lives.
- AmVess 14y agoDefinitely pretty cool, though it's hard to look at for more than 18 minutes with it on fast forward. I think it's reprogramming my brain.
- jivatmanx 14y agoPardon if I'm missing something obvious, but what is the significance of the colors?
- ygra 14y agoTo look pretty.
- malingo 14y agoSee also You Can Count on Monsters [1] which presents the same kind of factorization diagrams but with each number accompanied by an illustration of a 'monster'. The approach, targeting an elementary-school audience, is a little trippy but it anchors the idea of the number in a unique visual. I've given the book to a few of my nieces & nephews. [1] http://www.richardevanschwartz.com/monsters.html http://www.richardevanschwartz.com/monsters.html
- dhosek 14y agoI really love the n sequences following n! Those are some of the most beautiful in the lot, I think. Try 121-126 or 421-427 to see what I mean.
- jivatmanx 14y agoHave you considered using parenthesis, or showing powers instead of repeating numbers? IE 250 = (5 x 5) x (2 x 2 x 2) 250 = 2^3 x 5^2 You could always display both
- aquarin 14y agoI want a digital clock with dots instead of numbers.
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- ceautery 14y agoThat was beautiful. It puts my prime number elevator thing [1] to shame. [1] http://cautery.blogspot.com/2012/05/animated-prime-number-machine.html http://cautery.blogspot.com/2012/05/animated-prime-number-ma...
- d0m 14y ago108 is the coolest diagram ever ( http://zeldawiki.org/Triforce http://zeldawiki.org/Triforce )
- siddboots 14y ago3^n generates the Sierpinski gasket.
- rpwverheij 14y agoI like it a lot. Would be nice if I could fill in my own number...