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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
When I was a teen I loved making little simulations on my home computer. After reading the book "Chaos: The Making of a New Science" I tried to make a Malkus waterwheel. But, I simplified it too much and one bucket would end up with all the water. The wheel would stop moving.
The model is already abstract, even when done correctly, but I'd broken it.
An implicit goal of such a model is interesting motion: the wheel always changing direction.
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