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With just 30 minutes of coding, I knocked out a small - but pretty inefficient - class to generate an Ulam spiral. In my plot, dot radius increases with fewer unique prime factors; brightness increases with the total number of prime factors.

The source code, should anyone want it, is public domain and can be found at:

http://gist.github.com/323267

It’s surprising how fast Java can be for one-shot bespoke graphics tasks like this.

With just 30 minutes of coding, I knocked out a small - but pretty inefficient - class to generate an Ulam spiral. In my plot, dot radius increases with fewer unique prime factors; brightness increases with the total number of prime factors.

The source code, should anyone want it, is public domain and can be found at:

http://gist.github.com/323267

It’s surprising how fast Java can be for one-shot bespoke graphics tasks like this.