The Biggest Identity Sandpiles and How to Compute Them
25 points by eavan0
by eavan0
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When I wrote Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles (https://eavan.blog/posts/beautiful-sandpiles.html) I wanted to show off some nice images of large identity sandpiles. But the simple algorithm I used was horrendously slow. Showing a sandpile identity that was larger than 100 by 100 took multiple seconds! That's not good enough! I became obsessed with trying to find a faster way, all in an effort to compute bigger and bigger sandpile identities, bigger than anything anyone had seen before. In the end, I did exactly that.
by snthpy
0 subcomment
Cool. I didn't know the term before. It's basically like Conway's game of life with a different update rule.
by 542458
1 subcomments
I'm getting a PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR for this site - anybody else or is that just me?
by agnishom
0 subcomment
This is so cool.
Reminds of the 2-player game named "Chain Reaction".
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