Abelian sandpile model(en.wikipedia.org)
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Abelian sandpile model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian_sandpile_model
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Also on numberphile: https://youtu.be/1MtEUErz7Gg
...as mentioned over here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17886529
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17886529
Great article on sandpiles, http://nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/the-amazing-autotuning-sa...
Things like this make me wish I'd gone into math or physics instead.
http://mperdikeas.github.io/stack-piling-and-tumbling/index....
(click "start dropping grain" to start)
Github repo: https://github.com/mperdikeas/js-react-stack-piling-and-tumb...