Here is a variant of the Sinai billiard that brings us closer to the kind of systems we want to understand:

A small hard disc (a "gas particle") bounces about in a quadratic vessel; vessel walls are decorated with semicircular extrusions that serve to randomize the motion.
The statistical features are the same as in the basic Sinai billiard.

[Code: VarSinai]

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