Has anyone tried a five-dimensional representation instead of a two-dimensional one? 2095 isn’t divisible by 2 or by 3, but it is divisible by 5. Maybe our “aliens” have four spatial dimensions and one temporal.
I’ve tried highlighting every k-th point out of n with the same color for a bunch of n, but it all looks random. Right now, I’ve also tried using only 2 of 5 float values. It looks like a dead end, even though the idea is good.
I think the data is 1-dimensional, the interesting part is how each number is transformed into the next, and the 2d representation just happens to catch that (e.g., if x is transformed into −x, it lands on the diagonal).
Second try: When looking at scatterplots of any 3 out of 5 of those dimensions and interpreting each 5-tuple of numbers as one point, you can see the same structures that are visible in the 2d plot, the parabola and a line—though the line becomes a plane if viewed from a different angle, and the parabola disappears if viewed from a different angle
Has anyone tried a five-dimensional representation instead of a two-dimensional one? 2095 isn’t divisible by 2 or by 3, but it is divisible by 5. Maybe our “aliens” have four spatial dimensions and one temporal.
I’ve tried highlighting every k-th point out of n with the same color for a bunch of n, but it all looks random. Right now, I’ve also tried using only 2 of 5 float values. It looks like a dead end, even though the idea is good.
I think the data is 1-dimensional, the interesting part is how each number is transformed into the next, and the 2d representation just happens to catch that (e.g., if x is transformed into −x, it lands on the diagonal).
Second try: When looking at scatterplots of any 3 out of 5 of those dimensions and interpreting each 5-tuple of numbers as one point, you can see the same structures that are visible in the 2d plot, the parabola and a line—though the line becomes a plane if viewed from a different angle, and the parabola disappears if viewed from a different angle
Looking at scatterplots of any 3 out of 5 of those dimensions, it looks pretty random, much less structure than in the 2d plot.
Edit: Oh, wait, I’ve been using chunks of 419 numbers as the dimensions but should be interleaving them