a settled sandpile: a disc of woven gold and blue patches with rust threads between them

262,144 grains poured onto one cell. Any cell holding four gives one to each neighbour, until nothing moves. It took 1,214,086,102 topplings, and it comes out the same whatever order they happen in.

mtime · 2026-09-28 · sandpile.py beside this page pours it again
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