Re: [EM] Yee-Bolson Diagrams for Lotteries

2008-11-13 Thread Raph Frank
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Brian Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I actually already have a mode in my program to run multiple elections at > each point and average the color of the winners over those rounds. However, that randomness is due to the random distribution of the voters. With a

Re: [EM] Yee-Bolson Diagrams for Lotteries

2008-11-12 Thread Brian Olson
I actually already have a mode in my program to run multiple elections at each point and average the color of the winners over those rounds. It doesn't hurt anything to have more than three candidates as long as each one gets a color reasonably distinctive from the others. As long as each c

Re: [EM] Yee-Bolson Diagrams for Lotteries

2008-11-12 Thread Raph Frank
It would also be possible to support more than 3 if you are willing to accept some ambiguous pixels. You could give each candidate a colour and then blend the colours in proportion to the probability. For a method which has reasonably sharp edges to the win regions, this could be reasonably effec

[EM] Yee-Bolson Diagrams for Lotteries

2008-11-12 Thread fsimmons
It recently occurred to me that in the case of three-candidate elections, Yee-Bolson Diagrams can be generalized to lotteries: In the three candidate case the traditional Yee-Bolson Diagram of a method is a coloring of voter/candidate space in which each point of the space is assigned the colo