All of these strange-looking dice can produce a desired probability distribution
Keenan Crane
Gamers everywhere, rejoice: researchers have discovered that it is possible to transform any shape – from dragons to kittens – into a fair die, making it suitable for playing games that rely on random outcomes.
“We started from the idea of: ‘If you look at an object, can you tell its resting probabilities?’” says Keenan Crane at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In other words, if you roll a particular shape, what is the probability it lands in a particular orientation?
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Publish date : 2025-05-28 10:57:00
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