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Generate a prime number that looks like any image
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Generate a prime number that looks like any image

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# Paint By Primes

[![Paint By Primes Logo](/website/src/images/[email protected])](https://paintbyprimes.com/)

[Paint By Primes](https://paintbyprimes.com/) is a website which turns any image into a prime number
which looks like that image.

TODO: add gif which explains what this does in a visual manner

## Table of Contents

- [Documentation](#documentation)
- [Inspiration](#inspiration)
- [Resources](#resources)
- [Contributing](#contributing)

## Documentation

- [Local Setup](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) - How to set up your local machine to run your own version
of Paint By Primes.
- [Server Setup](./docs/server.md) - How to set up a web server to run a production
version of the Paint By Primes website.

## Inspiration

- [Trinity Hall Prime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQQ8IiTWHhg) by Numberphile
- [Corpus Christi Prime](https://friendlyfieldsandopenmaps.com/2017/09/08/the-corpus-christi-prime/) by JR Hodkinson
- [Does there exist a prime number whose representation on a phone screen looks like a giraffe?](https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/7qpfls/does_there_exist_a_prime_number_whose/) by AlmostNever on Reddit
- [Prime Portraits](http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2016/bridges2016-359.pdf) by Zachary Abel
- [Painting By Prime Number](http://www.pinchofintelligence.com/painting-by-prime-number/) by Roland Meertens
- [jorants/PrimeImage](https://github.com/jorants/PrimeImage) by Joran van Apeldoorn
- [Images created from prime numbers](http://www.gef.free.fr/oulipo34.html#date060120) by Gilles Esposito-Farese ([Hacker News discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031001))

## Resources

- [Integer Factorization Calculator](https://www.alpertron.com.ar/ECM.HTM) by Dario Alpern
- [Prime Number Generation in Rust](https://medium.com/snips-ai/prime-number-generation-2a02f28508ff) by Mario Cornejo

## Contributing

Contributions to the project are welcome! See the [contribution page](./.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for
details on how to get everything set up in your local environment.