Ideas you can poke at.

A few ideas I find beautiful, each built so you can change something and watch what happens. Every page ends with one sentence naming the surprise.

probability

The drunk walker

On a flat grid, a random walker always gets home. In 3D, it can be lost forever.
fourier

Drawing with circles

Sketch anything, then watch a chain of spinning circles trace it back.
counting

The crowded room

Add people one at a time until two share a birthday. It happens sooner than you'd guess.
emergence

Four rules, walking shapes

Conway's Game of Life. Draw cells and see what survives.

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