Dr. Jennifer McMahon Wrote:
Julie Tolmie submitted her PhD thesis in mathematics as visual notation.
Here is an Introduction to Cellular Automata (a field I was involved in as an artist)--basically, cellurar automata is a program or a machine that visually simulates physical behaviour, evolution, economics, and more.
http://members.aol.com/life1ine/life/intro.htm#The Game of Life
And check this one:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cdosborn/
Here is an introduction to the subject of
Cellular Automata :
The concept of the cellular automata was introduced by John von Neumann and Stanislaw in the 1950's. The concept of the cellular automata is that 'simple local rules can create complex global outcome'. Through this a cellular automata can mimic some aspects of life. The Game of Life, a cellular automata, invented by John Conway in the 1970's, is the most famous of the 'artificial life' games.
A cellular automata consists of an array of cells which can be one, two or three dimensions. Each cell has a state chosen from a finite set ( e.g. alive or dead, 0 or 1 etc.). Each cell is said to have neighbours ( in a 2-d grid of squares a cell can have four edge-neighbours (von Neumann) or eight edge-neighbours (Moore) ). Their behaviour is controlled by a simple ruleset. At each iteration the cell counts the amount of neighbours it has and reacts according to the ruleset. The number of iterations can be infinite. The overall state of a cellular automata either oscillates, dies or has no obvious pattern (i.e. becomes chaotic).
Cellular automata have been used to study many behaviours in various fields of science from physics to biology. But on an architectural level they have been used to study urban form (M.Batty & P.Longley 1994) and landuse patterns ( White & Engelen 1993). Cellular automata are also good at modelling activities and changing systems within buildings.
room 3 / index + links
http://www.uni-elefeld.de/~achim/gol.html
http://web.missouri.edu/~polsksm/
http://www.mirwoj.opus.chelm.pl/
All the best, David
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