PRIME LATTICE

The pitch

Prime Lattice places the integers on a tiling you choose and lights up the primes, so you can look for the lines they make. There are seven layouts, from the Ulam and Sacks spirals to a hex spiral, triangles and the Gaussian primes.

Highlight one prime family at a time, such as twin primes or Mersenne primes, and inspect any tile. It is the successor to a Prime Number Table from 2014.

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How to use it

1. Pick a tiling.
2. Set how many numbers to place, from 9 up to 300,000.
3. Choose a prime family to highlight, or keep all primes one color.
4. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan, click a tile to see its number.
5. Save the view as a PNG.

Controls

Details

• Seven tilings: Ulam spiral, square grid, hex spiral, triangles, Sacks spiral, prime walk, Gaussian primes
• Highlights for twin, cousin, sexy, Sophie Germain, safe, Mersenne, palindromic and emirp primes
• Grid width can be set to a primorial (2, 6, 30, 210)
• Save any view as a PNG

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