Sandpiles and the Vicsek fractal
This picture shows an example of a stable configuration in the abelian sandpile model on a square lattice. This is a rectangular square array of a large number of pixels, each with one of four possible colours (white, green, purple and gold) corresponding to the numbers 0, 1, 2 and 3 respectively. These numbers represent stacks of tokens which are often…
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