⛰️ Self-Organized Criticality
Self-organized criticality (SOC) is the tendency of certain slowly-driven, dissipative dynamical systems to evolve naturally toward a critical state — without any external fine-tuning of a parameter — in which perturbations of all sizes occur and their statistics follow a scale-free power law, the classic example being avalanches in the sandpile model.
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For a fuller technical treatment of the numerical thresholds and stability behaviour behind toppling-rule simulations, see the Numerical Methods Glossary — Error & Stability reference on MySimulator.
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