Alvin : sonic incubator. Alvin is a cellular automaton. Eight different cells produce sound. The sound one cell produces is determined by what sound the other cells are making. This kind of interrelated input and output scheme is an artificial neural network; a simulation of a brain. Alvin imitates living organisms in another way, because the sound circuits are actually built and destroyed by one another, rather than just turned on or off.
The sound jiggles metal powder just like heat jiggles chemicals in a living cell. The sounds Alvin can make are pseudosine waves between .5 hz and 100 hz. WolframTones. Art of Science Competition. Study the science of art and the art of science. --Leonardo da Vinci The University is sponsoring its fifth "Art of Science" competition, open to all members of the Princeton community. Submissions are limited to digital images and the deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m., October 17, 2011. There is no cost to enter the competition. The theme this year is “intelligent design.” “In recent years, the phrase ‘intelligent design’ has taken on a polarizing meaning,” said Art of Science co-organizer Andrew Zwicker, who is the head of Science Education at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and a lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program.
“But in the broadest sense, beautiful objects, both natural and the manufactured, have an intelligence to their form, their function, and thus, their design.” The organizers are soliciting images made in the course of scientific research that have aesthetic value. Jurors for the competition include President Shirley M. Cellular automata scipting language. Home. Cellular Automata Gallery - part I. The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, by Rudy Rucker. The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life , and How To Be Happy by Rudy Rucker Thunder's Mouth / Avalon, 2005, hardback and paperback. 560 pp, 148 illustrations, with drawings by Isabel Rucker Out of print. New and used copies available via Abe Books. Sample the Book Online! You can view the entire book online as a 4 Meg PDF file.
Summary We're presently in the midst of a third intellectual revolution. Does this, then, mean that the world is dull? "universal automatism. " Preface As a teenager in 1961, I imagined that I'd like to become a philosopher. As it turned out, I ended up getting a Ph.D. in mathematical logic. In the mid 1980s I sensed something new in the air. Back when I was contemplating my big switch to computer science, my old friend Gregory Gibson said something encouraging. Initially, I thought this might be a quick foray. --- Rudy Rucker, Los Gatos, California, March 22, 2004 Comments and Reviews Talks. The Wireworld Computer. These pages describe how we went about building a Wireworld computer. Although at least one design exists for a tape-based Turing machine implemented in the ‘Game of Life’, ours is, as far as we know, the first ever computer implemented as a cellular automaton that you might reasonably want to write a program for.
The design was done by David Moore and Mark Owen, with the help of many others, between 1990 and 1992. It’s a testament to our modesty that it was not until September 2004 that we wrote up our work. You will need a browser capable or rendering looped animated GIFs to fully appreciate the pages that follow. Some of the image files are quite large. This picture shows the display of the Wireworld computer as it calculates primes. Experimental demonstration of the Wireworld computer in action, calculating primes. Jeremy Sachs has implemented the Wireworld automaton in Flash.
Cities and Complexity. OneDautomata : Built with Processing.