some of you might have seen this tweet where elon posted the x logo converted into ascii art but what make this different is the image is composed of the digits of a prime number

after sometime Jelani Nelson commented an explanation saying that one can convert any picture into a prime number by randomly changing the value of a random pixel, that noise won't really affect what the image looks like but this random selection process will help you find a prime number, because turns out prime numbers aren't really that rare. for more detail checkout the research paper he linked.

you can see the random selection process at work by the random 7 in the image of the x logo, there to help make the number prime.

and like i said i couldn't resist making a program that takes in an image and converts it into a prime number and so i did it. 🎉

in rust of course
checkout the code on github [prime-portraits]