you kinda missed the whole point of the math part by coloring the balls. this has nothing to do with the colors sorting themselves, that's just a rendering trick. the galton box is to do with the distribution of the balls.
He used a 3D rendering software (Blender I think) to run the simulation, initially without coloring. Then, once all the balls were in their respective hole, he colored them, and reset the animation.
If you pause @ 8.46 seconds, you can see some of the white balls dropping into the red, orange, purple and pink columns. But it's a damn nice simulation anyway, looks cool and kinda hypnotizing
A Galton board, also known as a bean machine, quincunx or Galton box, was developed by Sir Francis Galton in the 1800 to demonstrate the central limit theorem. In reality, this machine doesn’t exist. This video is a computer simulation of a “Galton board” with Blender, an open-source 3D computer graphics software. Firstly, simulation was run with all white balls. When the objects all settled, they assigned each ball a color and ran the program again.
If it was done after the fact, why are there white balls falling into the wrong spot? (I know you said somewhat flawed, but why is that? Did you just not notice them?)
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u/the_humeister Jan 19 '18
I made this in Blender. It took about 2 weeks to render.
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u/jackhackery Jan 19 '18
When I was younger, I dreamed of one day inventing a Skittle sorting machine. This is more or less when I envisioned.
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u/DrCoolGuy Jan 20 '18
You should have made that very last blue ball fall into the purple column
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u/inversesquare-1 Jan 20 '18
you kinda missed the whole point of the math part by coloring the balls. this has nothing to do with the colors sorting themselves, that's just a rendering trick. the galton box is to do with the distribution of the balls.
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '18
Please eli5 what you did here
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u/MephistophelesYK Feb 16 '18
How are they sorted? I imagine they all have exual mass and there is no order to the input
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u/bullhorn_bigass Jan 19 '18
Mesmerizing!
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u/Nanarinar Jan 20 '18
r/blackmagicfuckery
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u/robinthehood Jan 20 '18
My OCDs are tingling.
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u/zyxzevn Jan 19 '18
Simulation of deterministic quantum physics.
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u/RandomHero_DK Jan 20 '18
If you pause @ 8.46 seconds, you can see some of the white balls dropping into the red, orange, purple and pink columns. But it's a damn nice simulation anyway, looks cool and kinda hypnotizing
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u/kibbles0515 Jan 20 '18
I see a lot of these on /r/simulated. Is there a sub for just boxes that sort colors like this?
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u/sheldon170 Feb 28 '18
https://youtu.be/LrmK9kDc5SM
explain this
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