Hi bobbym,

Thanks for posting a link.

The squarcle is just a fun name for it. It's a sine wave projected into 3 dimensions.  As it rotates it looks like a circle from one perspective and a square from another.

bobbym wrote:

Hi;

Your prime hexagon. Back in the old days we used that fact to generate primes quicker. We would use numbers of the form 6n + 1 and 6n - 1 for n =1,2,3,4... This was faster than trying every odd number.

That's cool.  So the idea has been around for a while then?  I can't say I'm surprised given the simplicity of it.

My isolation from academia means I tend to rediscover stuff.  It's fun and frustrating at the same time.  There is something to be said for reinventing the wheel though.  Sometimes possibilities are missed the first time.

I made another, simpler version of the squarcle that perhaps lends better to it's name:
perspectiveinfinity.com/squarcle2.html

Note that when sine and cosine are matched (1/2sqrt) and tangent is 1, the guide vectors form a tetrahedron.  Cool stuff.

Cool, thanks circlemaker!