From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-03-12T21:46:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] SimFrost (#117)

On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:19 AM, Christoffer Lern� wrote:

>
> On Mar 11, 2007, at 21:43 , James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
>> On Mar 11, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Christoffer Lern� wrote:
>>
>>> It's interesting that it looks like everyone populated their grid  
>>> using a randomizer for each position in the grid.
>>>
>>> This is is obviously fast, but for small grids (and low  
>>> percentages), the percentage of actual generated vapour particles  
>>> may be off by quite a bit.
>>
>> What's a "small grid" and what's "quite a bit"?  ;)
>
> For 10x10 with 10% vapour, the number of particles typically range  
> between 5 and 15, that's between 50% and 150% of the desired  
> amount. That's quite a bit, since the patterns with 15 vapour  
> particles are quite different from one with 5.

Sure, but a 10x10 isn't a sure interesting simulation.  ;)

> I'm not saying that this is necessarily a flaw in the solutions, I  
> just thought it was an interesting problem - randomly mixing  
> elements in a two-dimensional grid.

Yes, it is interesting.

James Edward Gray II