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A periodic dynamical system, 2-D elastic collisions of particles in a box.

Each particle follows the same path, 1/6 turn out of phase with neighbors. Two sets of three collide with each other, but avoid colliding across sets.

"There are these things, which I call 'self transforming machine elves,' I also call them self-dribbling basketballs. They are, but they are none of these things. I mean you have to understand: these are metaphors in the truest sense, meaning that they're lies! [...] I name them 'Tykes' because tyke is a word that means to me a small child, ... and when you burst into the DMT space this is the Aeon - it's a child, and it's at play with colored balls, and I am in eternity, apparently, in the presence of this thing." Terence McKenna, "Time and Mind"


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