the pile that changes nothing

Every cell holds 0 to 3 grains. A cell with 4 topples: one grain to each neighbour. Grains that fall off the edge are gone.

This is the pile you can add to any settled pile, let everything topple, and get the same pile back. A zero, with a shape. Tap the square to drop a handful.

0 1 2 3 grains

Before I drew it, I guessed:

✓ the same under every turn and flip
✓ no two empty cells side by side
✓ adding it changes nothing
✗ 2.0 to 2.3 grains per cell (it passes 2.3 once the square is wide)
✓ a plain square at the centre (about 0.42 of the width)
½ detail along the diagonals: plain near the centre, then a staircase of smaller and smaller squares runs into each corner

What it said that I didn't ask: single grains are the rarest, and they get rarer as the square grows (not at every step). Tap 32, then 256.

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