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🔗 Will Wright: Inspired to make The Sims after losing a home

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The process of assessing his losses and material needs after his home burned down set Wright to thinking about the value of possessions and the promise they hold of fulfillment. Having always been passionate about architecture, he began to develop an idea for a game where players would simulate daily activities in a suburban household, including building a home from scratch: The Sims was born.

🔗 rSPRITE beta 0.17

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<>rSPRITE is an implementation by Nick Brown of SPRITE, an idea by James Heathers.

rSPRITE simulates data from an integer (e.g., Likert-type) scale in the form of bar charts.

You can request up to 100 samples to be presented on a square grid. You need to specify the minimum and maximum item values of the scale, and the mean, standard deviation, and size of the sample. The charts are presented in increasing order of skewness, from top left to bottom right. <<<<