Card Shuffling Visualizations
Proceedings of Bridges 2018: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture
Pages 451–454
Short Papers
Abstract
This paper discusses a few natural ways to visualize card shuffles, like the perfect in- and out-shuffle and the milk shuffle. These visualizations are designed to highlight interesting properties of the shuffles, like the order of the shuffles and the stay-stack principle. Such properties have attracted magicians and mathematicians alike, and visualizations like these make it possible to see properties that would have been hard to see otherwise.