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Simon’s version of John Conway’s famous Game of Life, a cellular automaton zero-player game whose evolution follows certain simple rules and mainly depends on its initial conditions. Cellular automata-like models … Continue reading Conway’s Game of Life
Link to the interactive project and the code: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/n6-WZhMC3 Simon built a simple cellular automaton (rule 22) model for fracture. He read about this model a couple nights before in … Continue reading Crack Simulation in p5.js
Simon has been enjoying Stephen Wolfram’s huge volume called A New Kind of Science and is generally growingly fascinated with Wolfram’s visionary ideas about the computational universe. We have been … Continue reading Simon’s first steps in Stephen Wolfram’s Computational Universe
Simon wrote this JavaScript code for Langton’s Ant (a type of Cellular Automaton) himself, inspired by Daniel Shiffman’s description/version in Processing (Java) during the Coding Train live stream on January … Continue reading Langton’s Ant in p5.js
Simon’s new take on cellular automata: Some results would make fancy knitting patters! In case you wonder, what on earth are cellular automata: A cellular automaton (pl. cellular automata, abbrev. CA) is studied in computer … Continue reading Cellular Automata
Yesterday Simon spent the whole day studying the concept of Cellular Automaton (CA), a discrete model of a system of “cell” objects used in physics, math and theoretical biology. He … Continue reading Cellular Automata in Arduino
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