#randomvariate

2026-01-12

This is probably an unexpected interpretation of #genuary12, "Boxes Only", but I like how it turned out. Thinking of different uses of the term "box" in mathematical contexts, somehow I recalled the Box-Muller transformation, named after George E. P. Box and Mervin Muller, used to convert uniformly-distributed random numbers into a normal distribution. This is a visualization of the Box-Muller transform (which includes some rectangular boxes in there for good measure).

#genuary #genuary2026 #boxmuller #prng #randomvariate #randomnumber

Thin yellow and purple lines radiate from a central square, ending in small circles. The lines form the diagonal of faint thin gray rectangles.

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