A tribute to Mathologer's video, Times Tables, Mandelbrot and the Heart of Mathematics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbuKbxJsk8
This is a visualization of multiplication tables in modular arithmetic. Each line connects point n to n x the number in the corner, starting over at 0 when you get to 360.
There are other animations of this out there, but I couldn't find any others that pause to make the patterns clear, which is half the fun.
Made with Python.
More on modular arithmetic here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_arithmetic
Music: Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 6, 2nd movement (abridged).
Public domain recording courtesy of the Musopen Symphony Orchestra.
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