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Cited as the origin of the prime-number portrait trend and as an example of drawings made with primes.
Numberphile with Tadashi Tokieda on the Trinity Hall Prime, a prime number whose digits form a picture of the college's coat of arms, left as a gift by a departing mathematician.
“I love his video explaining how someone found a prime that looks like the Arms of Trinity Hall [1].” (HN, 2018)
Tadashi is awesome! I love his video explaining how someone found a prime that looks like the Arms of Trinity Hall [1]. Highly recommend all videos from Numberphile [2] and Fermat's Library [3]. [1] [this video] [2] [link] [3] [link]
Explains a prime that looks like the Arms of Trinity Hall
Here is one script [0] that was posted on Github yesterday, I believe a few others have been popping up ever since this video [1] by Numberphile on Thursday. [0] [link] [1] [this video]
Numberphile video that prompted scripts for prime portraits
Previously on HN, someone posted the The Corpus Christi Prime blog post [1], which was inspired by the Numerphile Trinity Hall Prime video [2]. See also Zachary Abel's Prime Portraits article [3]. [1]: [link] [2]: [this video] [3]: [link]
A nice example are the drawings using prime numbers. For example see "The Trinity Hall Prime - Numberphile" [this video] "The Emerging Art of Drawing in Prime Numbers" [link]
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