Pachinko

Pachinko

Inspired by the Japanese game Pachinko, we study simple (perfectly "inelastic" collisions) dynamics of a unit ball falling amidst point obstacles (pins) in the plane. A classic example is that a checkerboard grid of pins produces the binomial distribution, but what probability distribution...

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Main Authors: Akitaya, Hugo A. (Author), Demaine, Erik D (Author), Demaine, Martin L (Author), Hesterberg, Adam Classen (Author), Hurtado, Ferran (Author), Ku, Jason S (Author), Lynch, Jayson R. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV, 2020-11-10T16:20:43Z.
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