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Automata I

on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 13:29

Cellular Automaton

Click here to run the automata.

Once upon a time I did something like this, maybe back in 2003 or 2004. I recently re-arranged my bookshelves and discovered my copy of A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram. So now I have caught the CA bug.

Click the application to reset it. More interaction will be coming soon.

Extruding Into Meatspace

on Wed, 03/24/2004 - 00:00

I spend a lot of time at Mathworld looking at some of the amazing interactive geometry examples therein , and wishing I had the time to learn to do similar things. So when I come across someone who has built real-world versions , it makes me want to hang up my programming spurs and find work in the food service industry.

Nah, not really. But BOY would it be cool to have one of those.

(link found at Transphormetic )

C A

on Thu, 01/02/2003 - 00:00

I had a productive evening yesterday playing around with Cellular Automata, in response to Stephen Wolfram's magnum opus A New Kind of Science . I put together a CA generator which calculates 90 generations of a 60-cell grid. That's 5400 cells. So when you click this here link , wait for a few seconds (around four on my monster PC) for the thing to finish crunching. It shouldn't crush your computer, although I have not looked at it on a Macintosh. The blank right half of the file is where the (self explanatory) controls will go in the next iteration of the thing. It still has a few bugs which won't be obvious unless you know what the thing is doing.

I will post the code when I am happy with it.

This evening I got all set up to start playing in Java. I will maybe have a more powerful version of the CA demo up in a couple of months.