I built a pachinko machine simulator… for visualizing the distribution of a random number generator.https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/pachinko-simulator …
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(To be precise, it’s not simulating pachinko. Each dot has a fixed x-value per the random number generator, then I compute the minimum y-value to avoid intersection as in a beeswarm plot.)
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Love it! P.S. I've seen this sort of thing called "(off-lattice) ballistic deposition"; cf. this notebook which illustrates some on-lattice variants:https://observablehq.com/@bryangingechen/poisson-kpz-and-quenched-kpz …
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