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About This GigaPan
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Francisco Javier Aragón Artacho
- Explore score
- 33
- Print Pricing
- $6.99 to $59.99
- Size
- 108.03 Gigapixels
- Views
- 52752
- Date added
- June 04, 2012
- Date taken
- June 04, 2012
- Categories
- experimental, fine art
- Galleries
- Experimental Gigapixel Images, Print Gallery | All
- Competitions
- Tags
- pi, random walk
- Description
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This is a walk made out of the first 100 billion digits of pi in base 4 with the following rules for the steps:
- 0 right
- 1 up
- 2 left
- 3 downThe color indicates the path followed by the walk: it starts at red and moves up the spectrum (red-orange-yellow-green-cyan-blue-purple-red) as the walk progresses. After 100 billion steps it is close to where it started. It is unknown whether the digits of pi are random, although it is generally believed that they are. The picture clearly supports this conjecture: it shows a seemingly 'random' walk.
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Image created at CARMA (Priority Research Centre for Computer-Assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications)
The University of Newcastle
Australia
Manuel Elviro Vidal (February 20, 2013, 12:53AM )
Enhorabuena x el trabajo, Francisco!
Francisco Javier Aragón Artacho (January 11, 2013, 07:31PM )
Thanks for the suggestion, we will try it.
Paul Heckbert (January 10, 2013, 12:28PM )
Nice. You could use a 3-D Hilbert curve in RGB space as your color sequence, instead of the current spectral scheme. That would give you a more colorful picture.