Prime Number Spiral
Fascinating. And dangerous.<p>If you see a pattern and you search a explanation for it, you can get wrapped up in the hunt and end up investing a lot of time into a wild goose chase.<p>Our math profs warned us to do this, because if you zoom out wide enough, there is a pattern in every noise. As a undergrad, i got obsessed with the idea of creating a meaningful divide by zero operation.<p>The result, if i remember correctly, was a "fractal" cave, interconnected, the walls defined by aggregated infinitys reseeded by the "echos" of all previous caves until the next "digit" of the original seed number is reached. What a useless operation, one might think- but i got obsessed with it, because it generated sequences.
1/0 = |1|0/0=1|2|3|5<p>Some of the results started to look like the fibonacci-sequence(its basically a algorithm mapped to infinity echoing back and forth along the cave-walls after all) and i lost a semester chasing this numeric day dream. :(<p>Shame on me, i woke up when my math prof zoomed out over some random pattern revealing "patterns". The Truth is, we humans want to see patterns. Desperately. So desperatly it can eat lives.<p>Still a fascinating read, can fully recommend. But wake up if you what you find eats you.<p>PS: To double my shame, i did never publish this. So if you venture down the rabbit sinkhole, put a warning sign up.