The Art of Pi – A Colorful Data Visualization
Aug 16, 2014 23:08:12 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Aug 16, 2014 23:08:12 GMT -5
The Art of Pi – A Colorful Data Visualization
BY PAUL CARIDAD
Calling all data geeks! Using Circos, a circular visualization software popular in Genomics, Cristian Ilies Vasile and Martin Krzywinski have created these vibrant representations of π, φ and e. First Cristian Ilies Vasile had the idea of connecting each digit of π to its successive digit with links to the position of the numerically corresponding segments. Martin Krzywinski added to Vasile’s visualization “by showing the transition probabilities for each digit across bins of 10 digits” and did this for φ and e as well for the first 1,000 digits, followed by the first 2,000 digits.
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Next, Krzywinski created a lovely distribution plot of the numbers using red-yellow-blue Brewer palette to map their digits and plot them on an Archimedean spiral. For more details of the project, check out Martin Krzywinski’s website.
Above: Progression of the first 10,000 digits of π by Cristian Ilies Vasile
Below: Progression and transition for the first 1,000 digits of π by Martin Krzywinski
Lots more "pi" art at the link - Is our God amazing or what?
BY PAUL CARIDAD
Calling all data geeks! Using Circos, a circular visualization software popular in Genomics, Cristian Ilies Vasile and Martin Krzywinski have created these vibrant representations of π, φ and e. First Cristian Ilies Vasile had the idea of connecting each digit of π to its successive digit with links to the position of the numerically corresponding segments. Martin Krzywinski added to Vasile’s visualization “by showing the transition probabilities for each digit across bins of 10 digits” and did this for φ and e as well for the first 1,000 digits, followed by the first 2,000 digits.
SEE ALSO SCULPTURAL, DATA-BASED BASKET WEAVING
Next, Krzywinski created a lovely distribution plot of the numbers using red-yellow-blue Brewer palette to map their digits and plot them on an Archimedean spiral. For more details of the project, check out Martin Krzywinski’s website.
Above: Progression of the first 10,000 digits of π by Cristian Ilies Vasile
Below: Progression and transition for the first 1,000 digits of π by Martin Krzywinski
Lots more "pi" art at the link - Is our God amazing or what?
