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Sure beats lava lamps as a source of entropy...



Not really, the lava lamp's fluid dynamics are very sensitive to initial conditions and the fluids behave chaotically, whereas the bouncy balls have highly predictable trajectories.


> whereas the bouncy balls have highly predictable trajectories.

All we need are chaotic surfaces to bounce the balls on. Problem solved :-)




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