Stripey Squares

Year: 2014 Authors: Kelly Delp

Core claim

Image matrices, when squared and rescaled, tend to become striped because repeated multiplication drives columns toward the dominant Perron-Frobenius eigenvector.

Topics

image matrices, matrix powers, Perron-Frobenius theorem, visualization

Domains

linear algebra, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, matrix diagonalization, digital image art, visualization

Methods

matrix rescaling, eigenvector analysis, diagonalization, Mathematica

Media

black-and-white images, JPEGs, Mathematica notebook

Source status

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