50000 Rectangles #17

50000 rectangles.

(Continued from 50000 Rectangles #16.) If you visit the Wikipedia page Normal Distribution, there is a graph showing the effect of different standard deviations. At the limits, the normal distribution with standard deviation of zero becomes the Degenerate Distrbution. With an infinite standard deviation, it becomes the Uniform Distribution. So, not only is the normal distribution in the middle between order and chaos, it comes with a dial, the standard deviation, to control the order/chaos mixture.

The List of Probability Distributions has well over 100 well known, will at least popular enough to be named, probability distributions. All but two of them (uniform and degenerative) live somewhere between totally random and not at all random. Almost all of those have parameters like the standard deviation that can be used to dial in different degrees of randomness.