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Introduction to Random Walks

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	Patterns in Nature Tutorials by Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University
	http://polymer.bu.edu/ogaf/html/chp33.htm
	This is a nice tutorial that illustrates a couple of different kinds of random walks (a 10-step random walk and a 1-d random walk). Simple and visually “nice” but no mathematics. For more tutorials see http://polymer.bu.edu/ogaf/index.html.

	Two-dimensional Random Walk by Dan Sloughter, Department of Mathematics, Furman University
	http://math.furman.edu/~dcs/java/rw.html
	A simple Java applet that doesn’t really explain anything but definitely shows what a random walk looks like... not bad, but not nearly as cool as my NetLogo version.

	Random Walk Simulation by Krell Institute
	http://www.krellinst.org/UCES/archive/modules/monte/node4.html
	Just a page with some math. Boring.

	Random walk by Alexei Sharov, Virginia Tech
	http://www.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/PopEcol/lec12/randwalk.html
	This page has some nice graphics (no simulations) but describes the topic from the point-of-view of population dynamics. Interesting.

	Random walk along a line simulation by David Sumner, University of South Carolina
	http://www.math.sc.edu/~sumner/RandomWalk.html
	A clever little Javascript simulation of a 1-d random walk. Not particularly visually attractive but does allow some play with the parameters.

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