Colored Pi

[Miamiandy]

This is interesting. "Each of the 10 possible decimals of the number pi is displayed by a distinct colored pixel." The decimal point isn't there in case you feel pointing that out. I was bored in my 5th period so I confirmed most of the first line.



Alternate link:
http://ccgforums.com/miamiandy/color_pi.png

[Sidoh]

Interesting idea.  7, 0 and 9 aren't very "distinct," though.  They need more contrasting colors.

[d&q]

Hm. Try looking for some patterns? Like, color them in one(let's say blue) palette. From a complete white, to all the way through the shades of blue to a black.

[Miamiandy]

I didn't do that myself btw. And once you are zoomed in all the way you can decently tell the color of the pixels apart.

[Sidoh]

Hm. Try looking for some patterns? Like, color them in one(let's say blue) palette. From a complete white, to all the way through the shades of blue to a black.

I think it's pretty much confirmed that the digits of pi (in this sort of very small reference frame, anyway!), there are no "patterns."

I didn't do that myself btw. And once you are zoomed in all the way you can decently tell the color of the pixels apart.

I know you didn't. ;P

Zooming in defeats the purpose of the thing!  I think this would be reasonably easy to create, though.  In fact... brb.

[Miamiandy]

Of course it would be easy to create, I could make in in c++. All you need is calculate pi to whatever place you want and then plot it pixel by pixel.

[Sidoh]

http://www.sidoh.org/~sidoh/src/php/pi/pi.gif (1,000,000 digits)

[Miamiandy]

Nice. See, made quickly. 1 hour 15 min after original post. How long did it take you??

[Sidoh]

Nice. See, made quickly. 1 hour 15 min after original post. How long did it take you??

About five minutes.  45 lines of code.

Edit: Here's the code.

Edit2:  Fixed the link.  This is the code that produces the ledgend at the top of the image, so it's longer.

[Miamiandy]

Nice.

[d&q]

Hm. Try looking for some patterns? Like, color them in one(let's say blue) palette. From a complete white, to all the way through the shades of blue to a black.

I think it's pretty much confirmed that the digits of pi (in this sort of very small reference frame, anyway!), there are no "patterns."

I didn't mean patterns in that sense, I fully understand that pi is irrational and there are no patterns. I meant like, interesting formations. I'm saying it would be more aesthetically pleasing than just a huge Joseph's technicolor dreamcoat.

[Sidoh]

I didn't mean patterns in that sense, I fully understand that pi is irrational and there are no patterns. I meant like, interesting formations. I'm saying it would be more aesthetically pleasing than just a huge Joseph's technicolor dreamcoat.

How's this?

[Miamiandy]

That's a neat way of doing it as well.

[Sidoh]

I changed the script so the single digit images are generated differently: white is the presence of the digit, black is the absence.  It's much easier on the eye that way.

[Joe]

I don't know if you guys knew this, but the formula for pi is .