If you wanted to wrap your brainpan around 4 million decimal places of Pi, you’d spend three weeks reading out digits. Better to just look at the pretty pictures. Subscribe to the Design newsletter.

Although the art on display ranges all the way from the ... in MEDIAH's video animation that narrates an abstract history of decimals (rendered as characters) and the formation of mathematics.

so they decided to visualize a subset of Pi as pixel art. They took Pi’s first 4 million decimals and assigned each digit a different color. Then they rendered the digits as 1×1 pixel dots and ...