Visualizing the Kolakoski Sequence
Ulrich Reitebuch, Henriette-Sophie Lipschütz, and Konrad Polthier

Proceedings of Bridges 2023: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 481–484
Short Papers

Abstract

The Kolakoski sequence is a self-generating sequence consisting of 1’s and 2’s only. In addition to the several visualizations of this sequence known, in this paper, a representation is presented illustrating different properties of the Kolakoski sequence and of its generalizations by placing the sequence elements on a spiral.

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