Cayley Rhythms

group theory → polyrhythms | walk a Cayley graph, hear the symmetry
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Rhythm Grid

Walk Sequence

What is a Cayley graph?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley_graph

Named after Arthur Cayley (1821--1895), English mathematician. A Cayley graph draws a group as a picture: each element is a node, each generator is a colored arrow, the identity sits at the center. This page walks the graph and turns the sequence of generators into drum patterns. Triangle gives threes, square gives fours, pentagon gives fives.

Random wanders. Hamiltonian visits every point exactly once.