Movie of edge probabilities

Here is an animation of a weighted aztec diamond with weights 1 and x organized in the following way.



1 1 x x 1 1 x x
1 1 x x 1 1 x x
x x 1 1 x x 1 1
x x 1 1 x x 1 1
1 1 x x 1 1 x x
1 1 x x 1 1 x x
x x 1 1 x x 1 1
x x 1 1 x x 1 1

In the movie, the order of the aztec dimaond is 100 and x varies smoothly from 0 to 1. As shown by the colors one can see how the shapes of the arctic and tropical boundaries evolve as x changes. Warning...movie is long (562K)