Why ?

When you think of a beautiful problem in math, the most important component to it is visualizing the problem in various ways.

I have been grappling with Collatz Conjecture for a while, and have come up with some visual ways of thinking it for myself.

But on some long and tiring days, I don't want to come up with new visualizations. I would like to just delegate the job of visualizing to a computer program, so I can use the rest of my energy in just observing patterns.

Till I have a functional AI to automate the new visualizations for me, I have to code them by myself for my tired future self.

Ok, But what is Collatz conjecture ?

Well it is one of those problems that are extremely easy to describe, but very very difficult so solve.

Take any positive number.

1. If it is odd: Mutiply it with 3 and add 1. i.e (3n +1)
2. If it is even: Divide it by 2. i.e (n/2)
3. Repeat the above steps with the resultant number.

The conjecture states that when you do the above , you will always end up at 1.

Dependencies

1. node.js
2. npm or yarn

How to Use this ?

1. You can use yarn build or npm install to install dependencies
2. You can use yarn deploy-local to load the page in localhost

It should be usually hosted at http://localhost:8080, or the port http-server displays when you run yarn deploy-local

Use PageUp and PageDown to go forward and backward in collatz number marking
Use Spacebar to pause and play automatic forwarding