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...and now for some sticky elemental snow! ~Kristin

Author:Kristin Henry
Author's comments:
In this version, when the elements get near their position in the periodic table, they stick. Eventually, if you let this run long enough, the whole table will form. But when the table completes, the elements fall and the table formation starts over.

One thing I found interesting, was how obvious this makes the weighting of lower numbers in the random function. In my code, when a cell is created it's assigned a random atomic number and a random starting position (x is random, y is set to a constant). If the random function were truly random, there wouldn't be so many more cells generated closer to the left side of the stage than the right.

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