Factor Diagrams: a new way to visualise prime numbers (ad lib edition!)

Think prime numbers are a boring abstract mathematical concept? Well, think again. They're actually quite beautiful to look at if you know the right way to visualise them.

Links:

Brent Yorgey's original post on factor diagrams:

My animation of his factor diagrams:

You can provide URL parameters to change some things about the effect.

n is the number it starts at
delay is the delay in milliseconds between numbers
speed is the number of milliseconds it takes for the numbers to rearrange
showText turns on/off the arabic numeral representation of the number

e.g

will start at 1000 and very quickly animate the numbers!

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