Coding

Weave

“Don’t even know whose bed I’m in…”

The (pseudo)code below generates a number of points in a plane or, simply put, a picture:

Goals = [(0, 0), (1, 0), (0.5, sqrt(3)/2)];
curr = random(Goals);

for i = 1:N
    dest = random(Goals);
    next = 1/2 * (curr + dest);
    curr = next;

The process is defined by a set of goals (Goals), a single rule (move half-way (1/2) to a chosen goal) and chance (random()). Can you predict how the picture of N points will look?

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