Tuesday, March 1, 2011


This image by Stephen Schiller has been one of my favorites for years. It shows the distribution of fractions of Gaussian integers with a restriction on the denominator. Explicitly, this is the set of complex numbers (a + bi)/(c + di) where a,b,c, and d are integers, and √(c² + d²) < 25. Source: The Pattern Book, by Clifford Pickover.

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  1. thanks for appreciating my image! in the spirit of bald self-promotion I might mention that I have a few other mathematical images at https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenschiller/albums/72157622454161224
    - Stephen

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