[HN Gopher] Cellular Automata (1983) [pdf]
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       Cellular Automata (1983) [pdf]
        
       Author : jnakayama
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2021-04-19 07:13 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | prezjordan wrote:
       | Does Conway's name only appear twice in this article?
        
         | MengerSponge wrote:
         | "I wonder which will become self-aware first -- Wolfram Alpha,
         | or Stephen Wolfram."
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9798333
        
         | ptrott2017 wrote:
         | It does and with acknowledgement that Conway's life was then
         | the best known example of 2D cellular automata. However,
         | Conway's life CA was not the focus of the article hence limited
         | references to it. There was an increasing of interest at the
         | time of the article on self similarity, emergence, self
         | organization and mapping of CAs with dynamical systems theory
         | and different classes of CAs (focus of article) beyond the game
         | of life. A number of researchers at the time were interested in
         | using CAs as a means of simulating certain dynamical systems
         | e.g. fluids and weather. However generally the early work of CA
         | pioneers including Stanislaw Ulam, Kondrad Zuse, Art Burks et
         | all was not as widely known as it is now and certainly John
         | Conway's life along with the works of Edward Frenkin, Norman
         | Magulis et al and articles such as these by Stephen Wolfram
         | helped generated renewed interest in the field. Without
         | articles like this one I am not sure we would have seen
         | sufficient interest to publish discoveries such as Christopher
         | Langton's wonderful Loops and Ant only a few years later. If
         | you are interested in CAs its a good article and worth reading.
        
       | mrkramer wrote:
       | Funny enough I started researching biology and computation 1
       | month ago and so far it has been a wild ride into topics such as
       | biocomputation, emergent computation, evolutionary biology,
       | evolutionary computation and artificial life.
        
       | peheje wrote:
       | Only a few pages in. Had to try:
       | https://gist.github.com/peheje/8076f619f6fbc1202954bc70720ef...
        
         | vavooom wrote:
         | First time seeing .nim code in the wild! Seems like a fun/ fast
         | language to use.
        
       | meroes wrote:
       | Some nice demonstrations of 2d cellular automata
       | https://oeis.org/A139250/a139250.anim.html
        
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