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by geonnave 1024 days ago
On the subject of weird stuff on a URL, here is a prime dog: https://geonnave.github.io/primg/#17976931348623159077293051...
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This one is amazing, even just the fact that someone thought about representing images with binary format of prime number
The first version of this I saw came from the webcomic in this reddit thread about a prime number that looks like a giraffe.

After one commenter showed off this technique, someone else found a minimal prime giraffe: 7.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/7qpfls/does_there_exi...

primg is, indeed, inspired by the prime giraffe :)