{"id":18958,"date":"2022-01-14T07:47:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=18958"},"modified":"2022-01-14T07:47:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:47:31","slug":"bouncing-balls-satisfying-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/14\/bouncing-balls-satisfying-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouncing balls, satisfying patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Heh\u2014happy Friday from these little guys:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bouncing Balls, Beautiful Patterns\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nDhOGsBj1fA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kottke <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/22\/01\/randomly-bouncing-balls-arrange-themselves-into-satisfying-patterns\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Spoiler: the trick here is a pair of simulations stitched together, like a physics\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/21\/09\/the-texas-switch\">Texas Switch<\/a>: \u201cEach sequence is obtained by joining two simulations, both starting from the time in which the balls are arranged regularly. One simulates forward in time, one backwards.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh\u2014happy Friday from these little guys: Kottke writes, Spoiler: the trick here is a pair of simulations stitched together, like a physics\u00a0Texas Switch: \u201cEach sequence is obtained by joining two simulations, both starting from the time in which the balls are arranged regularly. One simulates forward in time, one backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18958"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18960,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18958\/revisions\/18960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}