Cellular Automata 1

Inspired by a documentary called "The secret life of chaos" by Prof. J. Al-khalili (University of Surrey), I decided to carry out a little computer experiment to demonstrate the powerful idea that simple rules can generate great complexity. Cellular automata consists of a structured grid of cells that each have a finite number of states. The states of each cell are evolved through simple rules of interaction with the neighbouring cells.
In this example I used the simplest form of cellular automata - binary and discrete. Each cell can have only two states, 1 or 0. The rules themselves are described at the start of the video, but the basic idea was to model simple life with the concepts of reproduction and sustenance, overcrowding, and isolation all reduced to boolean logic operations. The results were pleasantly surprising to say the least...... just watch ;-)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Cellular Automata
• discrete
• binary
• complexity
• computational universe
• chaos
• simple rules
• Visual Basic
• logic
• boolean
• XOR
• Artificial life
• computer experiment

[DKM101]

oh man, It's awesome but I can't even bare to look at the structure of it with the flashing colors.

[khyar]

@DKM101 LOL. Yes it is rather intense.... so I have gone and made another one without the blue or red colours. I was trying to put as much info into the movie as possible, where blue and red corresponded to births and deaths. In the new video it is just white for incumbent living cells (survivors from the previous generation) and black otherwise. The new video has different initial conditions too (a few randomly scattered seed points).

[theROBLOXboy2]

if you look at it it looks like the pattern came from the mayans!

[9stairz]

Great video. Loved that documentary

[r57w9w88]

seizure warning

[RoboticusMusic]

@khyar no no please keep doing what you're doing.

[RoboticusMusic]

IS THIS THE DEVIL OUR PARENTS WARNED US ABOUT??!

[ittooklongtomakethis]

:O