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Eternal Struggle

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Re: Eternal Struggle

#41
post #11

The cool thing about this is that it's self-balancing - if either side gets larger than the other due to random chance, the ball in that side will have more space to bounce in, and therefore bounce less often, slowing its growth. Meanwhile, the ball in the smaller side will bounce more often in its smaller space, making up the ground.

There are stableish equilibria that are not 50-50, e.g. one color having a donut around the other color that has a donut hole.

Now the question remains, are there stableish equilibria that are 50/50? Splitting it into two half-circles sounds like an equilibrium at first glance, but I'm not convinced it is, as only a tiny bit of random luck seems to make it become a "horseshoe" pattern instead.

(That assumes that the simulation is randomized of course, which doesn't seem to be the case for the one in the link posted here.)

Re: Eternal Struggle

#44

I was cheering on the black circle's tunneling project when they both got caught in a rapid-fire spiral and the black one glitched through to the other side. https://imgur.com/a/dhCSNmi

The darkness has come upon the world!

Re: Eternal Struggle

#45

I was cheering on the black circle's tunneling project when they both got caught in a rapid-fire spiral and the black one glitched through to the other side. https://imgur.com/a/dhCSNmi

Hah! I was wondering if that was possible.

Re: Eternal Struggle

#47
post #11

The cool thing about this is that it's self-balancing - if either side gets larger than the other due to random chance, the ball in that side will have more space to bounce in, and therefore bounce less often, slowing its growth. Meanwhile, the ball in the smaller side will bounce more often in its smaller space, making up the ground.

There are stableish equilibria that are not 50-50, e.g. one color having a donut around the other color that has a donut hole.

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Re: Eternal Struggle

#48

I was cheering on the black circle's tunneling project when they both got caught in a rapid-fire spiral and the black one glitched through to the other side. https://imgur.com/a/dhCSNmi

Had the exact same bug! Not so rare I think.

Re: Eternal Struggle

#49

I guess it’s supposed to start on mouse move (based on skimming the source code). On a phone it doesn’t seem to trigger unless I changed the background so I spent a minute just staring at the symbol without anything happening lol :D

If you tap on the ying-yang it starts.

Hmm, not on iOS Safari.
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