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mathythrowaway··on An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression
But that does produce a picture identical to theirs. Because they are using 75 numbers per square, they do end up hitting at least one prime in each box with (n,k)=1 for the first 75 rows. This pattern won't continue much longer, which is why they've conveniently stopped the picture at that point.
mathythrowaway··on An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression
No, it isn't plotting a prime spiral. Each square in their triangle is a block of 75 numbers. Within the nth row the numbers are sorted by residue mod n.
mathythrowaway··on An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression
Their picture is correct, but only because they are doing something more ridiculous than this. Every one of the squares in their picture represents 75 numbers, not 5 numbers.
mathythrowaway··on An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression
This just shows the reduced residues mod n. There are n squares in the nth row from the top. Color the kth square of the nth row black if gcd(k,n)=1, color it red otherwise.