Talking about shower thoughts on Collatz visualizations..
A while ago I though of a way of structuring the collatz orbits by arranging integers in a 2d grid with odd numbers being arranged along the X axis and multiples of the power of two along the Y axis.
So essentially any odd number n and all numbers n * 2^m belong to the same group of numbers that eventually reduces to n. All that's left is the 3n+1 orbits which are shown as lines from the odd numbers.
This reveals quite a bit of structure (IMO) especially only every second odd number goes to an orbit reducing to an odd number larger than it (and it's always in the form n * 2^1) all the other orbits every 4th, 8th, 16th odd integer immediately reduce to an odd number that's lower.
Anyone seen an arrangement like this for the Collatz orbits?
Just wanted to chime in and say that's a really interesting visualization of the conjecture, I haven't seen it before (and I have wasted more than a few hours on this problem).
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Talking about shower thoughts on Collatz visualizations..
A while ago I though of a way of structuring the collatz orbits by arranging integers in a 2d grid with odd numbers being arranged along the X axis and multiples of the power of two along the Y axis.
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ginkgo/13121db56b65b1237e...
So essentially any odd number n and all numbers n * 2^m belong to the same group of numbers that eventually reduces to n. All that's left is the 3n+1 orbits which are shown as lines from the odd numbers.
This reveals quite a bit of structure (IMO) especially only every second odd number goes to an orbit reducing to an odd number larger than it (and it's always in the form n * 2^1) all the other orbits every 4th, 8th, 16th odd integer immediately reduce to an odd number that's lower.
Anyone seen an arrangement like this for the Collatz orbits?
Just wanted to chime in and say that's a really interesting visualization of the conjecture, I haven't seen it before (and I have wasted more than a few hours on this problem).
try this visualization https://gist.github.com/bwanaaa/4c77b33311916b230c8b1891bab4... just open it in collar and the 3d graph appears