In this approach, probabilistic methods are used to choose which particles will communicate and update on every iteration loop.
Whether it's coder Joël Franusic's website that randomly cycles through every loop on Wikipedia to conceptual artist Michael Mandiberg plans to print the whole damn thing, the art world has become fascinated with trying to understand the sum of human knowledge that is Wikipedia.
Or, hey, maybe watch the video above on loop?
On a wall behind the portraits, a video plays on loop.
Television commercials promoting what has been called the Fight of the Century play on a loop every two minutes on the internal hotel TV channel.
This means that ITV2 is three years and three months away from having a new film it can broadcast on a loop every weekend for ever.
Watching the news shows for more than, say, an hour at a time would be mind-numbing, what with weather and traffic on a loop every 10 minutes and live reports and features repeated essentially word for word every hour.
In the bathroom, hits by the likes of the O'Jays and Donna Summer run on a loop: "Every time I go in there, I start dancing, it's so happy!" a tattoo-besleeved patron exclaimed to his date the other day.
Maybe this is just points one, two and three, on a loop.
The FIFA World Cup is amazing, undoubtedly, because it is history creaking open directly in front of you: these moments will be replayed again and again on a loop every four years, becoming more saturated in colour and vibrant in energy as each degree separates us from it, this precise moment in time will one day feel long gone to us, this lightning bolt of a summer one day just a dusky memory.
In fact, it plays on a loop across every general practice and every emergency department.
