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comment by mike

They count from 0 to 15, down the left side then rotated 180° and up the right side. 0s are white, 1s are black, I think they look like fish in seaweed. You can see two black fish, or two white fish. Thus Pisces. Which is twoness. Which is binary.

I think the symmetry is very pleasing as well. The numbers 0-7 fit right into 8-15 if you fold them over.





Kaius  ·  3804 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yep I can see the theme of binary and symmetry. What I meant to ask was if the binary numbers you used mean something mathematically or otherwise apart from creating the pattern you needed.

Reading from left to right the numbers are:

Binary DEC HEX

00001111 15 F

00010111 23 17

00101011 43 2B

00110011 51 33

01001101 77 4D

01010101 85 55

01101001 105 69

01110001 113 71

I didn't see an immediate pattern in the numbers, they are not primes or anything.

It's a pretty interesting picture as you mention you can fold it along its Y axis and the 0 and 1's match up. This is also true along the X axis. Its a simple idea but quite pleasing.

mike  ·  3785 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Superb! I will need to play with these patterns, there is something to notice here! Thanks!