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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454084003321

Titolo

New constructions in cellular automata / / edited by David Griffeath, Cristopher Moore [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2020

ISBN

0-19-756165-9

0-19-803139-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Collana

Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

511.3

Soggetti

Cellular automata

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Self-Organized Construction in Sparse Random Arrays of Conway's Game of Life; Synthesis of Complex Life Objects from Gliders; A Two-Dimensional Cellular Automaton Crystal with Irrational Density; Still Life Theory; Replicators and Larger-than-Life Examples; Growth Phenomena in Cellular Automata; Constructive Molecular Dynamics Lattice Gases: Three-Dimensional Molecular Self-Assembly; Simulating Digital Logic with the Reversible Aggregation Model of Crystal Growth; Universal Cellular Automata Based on the Collisions of Soft Spheres

Emerging Markets and Persistent Inequality in a Nonlinear Voting ModelCellular Automata for Imaging, Art, and Video; Continuous-Valued Cellular Automata in Two Dimensions; Phase Transition via Cellular Automata; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'New Constructions in Cellular Automata' not only discusses cellular automata (CA) as accouterment for simulation, but also the actual building of devices within cellular automata. CA are widely used tools for simulation in physics, ecology, mathematics and other fields. But they are also digital 'toy universes' worthy of study in their own right, with their own laws of physics and behavior. This book examines constructive methods - the practice of actually building devices in a given CA that store and process in formation, replicate and propagate



themselves, and interact with other devices in complex ways. By building such machines, we learn what the CA's dynamics are capable of, and build an intuition about how to 'engineer' the machine we want.