Trebuchet Simulator

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Part 1: Simulating a trebuchet

Basically, this app follows this paper:

Part 2: Optimizing a trebuchet using a CMAES variant

I stumbled into a much simpler variant of Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Search while implementing this app, and figure I might as well document it here.

Basically, the most naive way to optimize a function is to repeatedly sample from a distrubution $\mathcal{N} (best point, 1)$, updating best point whenever you find a new best point.

CMAES suggests repeatedly sampling