Visualization of Eratosthenes’ sieve

1.4k Views Asked by Bumbble Comm At 25 Mar 2026 - 11:10

In otherwise great paper on prime numbers, I found following visualization of Eratosthenes’ sieve:

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I found it somewhat scary and confusing.

Is there any better visualization of Eratosthenes’ sieve out there?

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Bumbble Comm On 20 Jul 2014 - 9:22 BEST ANSWER

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Bumbble Comm On 20 Jul 2014 - 9:36

I definitely agree that animation and interactivity would be helpful in this case.

However, I just found three static visualizations similar to the one from the question, but in my opinion significantly better:

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