Pi Day: pi transformed into incredible art – in pictures
▻http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/gallery/2014/mar/14/pi-day-pi-transformed-into-incredible-art-in-pictures
Protein fix: Martin Krzywinski, a well known pi artist, here lets the first 768 decimal digits of pi behave like the string of amino acids in a protein. In other words, he arbitrarily lets the prime digits (2,3,5 and 7) be black dots. The remaining dots each are colour-coded. A computer algorithm then ‘folds’ the string in such a way to maximize the number of adjacent black dots.
