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Re:The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art by raverbashing on Saturday May 18, 2013 @09:25AM (#5728817)
And here's the relevant citation

   EIGHTY SUCCESSIVE PERIODS of the first pulsar observed, 
   CP1919 (Cambridge pulsar at 19 hours 19 minutes right  
   ascension), are stacked on top of one another using the 
   average period of 1.33730 seconds in this computer-generated 
   illustration produced at the Arecibo Radio Observatory in 
   Puerto Rico.
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Re:The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art by Someone on Sunday May 19, 2013 @03:10PM (#5734047)
A method for making such plots lives on in ImageJ (a Java version of NCSA Image). For example, see http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/docs/guide/146-30.html#toc-Subsecti....
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