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Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:31:50 UTC No. 16100024
What are some of the most interesting and beautiful properties of Conway's Life, Wireworld, or cellular automata in general that I could write about and study for my undergraduate computer science project?
So far I've just been implementing them instead of actually studying their underlying structure and - which turns the whole thing into a programming exercise, as I wrestle with C and ncurses.
I want more depth and actual theory to it, but I'm moving through the literature frustratingly slow. I just know I'm missing things, that the volume of information is too much & too dense for me to fully absorb it in less than a year.
Does /sci/ have any particular recommendations for writing I could study or interesting directions I could take?
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:47:53 UTC No. 16100051
>homework thread
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:57:01 UTC No. 16100065
What is there even more to say about it? Umm the game of life is turing complete and... you can program some stuff in a roundabout way in it. Simple rules can result in extremely complex behavior, so complex that you can't predict it without running it yourself.
I dunno what else you can say.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 22:03:59 UTC No. 16100074
is it really a homework thread if i'm asking about theory and paper/book recommendations? I can delete & repost in worksafe requests, but I'm trying to learn more about the implications and quirks of cellular automata, it's why I decided on it as my project - i'm not asking for someone to do my trig homework. I don't think /wsr/ is as appropriate as here - if I hadn't mentioned my project, this would be the perfect place to post it, but it's silly to try and actively hide it.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 22:08:44 UTC No. 16100081
>>16100065
honestly, that;s kind of my issue now right now as well. Trying to implement a basic set of gates with most cellular automata is vastly out of my skillset, but it's also what I'm most interested in. The actual leap to that is what I'm trying to work towards/bridge rn, I want to start with something a little bit more within my reach.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:10:42 UTC No. 16100164
>>16100081
If you can access it, you could check the paper "Universalities in Cellular Automata". Among other things, it contains a description of the cellular automaton "Copper", which is designed specifically to have a relatively simple description, and relatively simple implementations of basic logic gates.
https://link.springer.com/reference
Alternatively, it is briefly described in the set of slides
https://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Me
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:13:26 UTC No. 16100170
>>16100065
All it needs is a blur function and it could simulate reality to an arbitrary degree.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:31:11 UTC No. 16100208
>>16100164
thank you sweetest anon, skimmed quickly through the paper, it's fascinating - really cool how it's been designed to mimic circuits, reminds me of wireworld in that way, except this is much easier for me to understand - I'm going to start reading it properly today. If you don't mind me asking, how did you come across this?
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:39:40 UTC No. 16100213
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8k
There are none. Even the guy who created it said it was useless.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:14:33 UTC No. 16100268
>>16100024
You aren't going to find much here
https://conwaylife.com/ and associated subdomains are where the people actually working on this stuff tend to congregate
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:17:42 UTC No. 16100272
>>16100170
>All it needs is a blur function and it could simulate reality to an arbitrary degree.
Kek! Those who know, know!
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:18:58 UTC No. 16100273
>>16100170
>blur function
Realnumber, localized, symmetrical averaging function... but yeah...
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:33:34 UTC No. 16100294
>>16100170
>blur function
Just zoom out very far
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:54:20 UTC No. 16100315
>>16100208
I have just done a lot of literary search on cellular automata in general, I don't remember how I came across this specifically.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 01:03:16 UTC No. 16100324
I'm freaking out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 01:15:45 UTC No. 16100336
>>16100271
4 forces of physics simulated from 1 equation using continuous cellular automata. Brings back memories
https://youtu.be/WuXCS_K_8qM?si=-MQ
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:41:45 UTC No. 16101029
>>16100024
What do you know already?
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 20:10:33 UTC No. 16101813
>>16100024
>>16100081
This is what you are looking for: https://youtu.be/xP5-iIeKXE8?featur