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<blockquote><p>How wary we are of something warm and unborn. Something calmly by zero will divide (Unbegotten, The Somnambulist)</p>
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<p>Some time ago, I assumed the mission to <em>draw a plot</em> for the cover of the new album of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thesomnambulistberlin.com/">The Somnambulist</a>, a music band from Berlin. They wanted a <em>circlization</em> of Pi, which is a graphic where numbers are represented in a circular layout. The idea is connecting each digit of Pi to its successive digit with links to the position of the numerically corresponding external sectors. I used a color palette composed by <em>10 nuances of the visible spectrum as a tribute for Planck</em>, as Marco (the vocalist) requested me. After a number of attempts:</p>
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<p>The album is named <em>Unbegotten</em>, a german word which means <em>archaic</em>. As Marco told me, in theology <em>it also means kind of eternal because of being never born and so never dying</em>. I like how π is integrated into the title to substitute the string “tt” in the middle. Pi is also eternal so the association is <em>genuine</em>.</p>
<p>The music of The Somnambulist is intense, dark and powerful and is waiting for you <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thesomnambulistberlin.com/music.htm">here</a> to listen it. My favorite song is the one that gives name to the album.</p>
<p>If you want to know more about circlizong numbers, you can visit <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://fronkonstin.com/2015/01/15/maths-music-and-merkbar/">this post</a>, where you also can see the code I used as starting point to do this plot.</p>
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