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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 279090" data-attributes="member: 3745"><p>You can have wildness without literal randomness.  The way to do it is to push the simulation to super high spatial resolution.  A ball doesn't sit at exactly the same position in the plunger or sinkhole every time, it's slightly different by micrometers depending on how it got there and what surfaces it scraped on the way in.  A solenoid doesn't impart exactly the same force every time, it varies depending on its temperature and the power input (which in turn depends on how many lights the machine has on at that instant.)  A held flipper isn't a rigid object, it flexes slightly also based on its power input.  Model all that in the physics, and you get the true emergent chaotic behavior without artificially injected randomness.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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