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Project: Emergence and Navigating Space
Project: Emergence and Navigating Space
Cellular Automata (CA) have a couple of distinct purposes to serve: The furthering of scientific knowledge, and applying the concepts and processes of CA to the production of artistic images.
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This image was created by Jonathan McCabe.
I am very interested in pursuing (obviously, design class) the artistic side, and, after doing a little research, have no doubts that it is possible to create very attractive images with these systems.
The key in this project would be to find a really nice set of conditions for the state changes of my CA. I think I would simply like the states to be a range of colors (for now) and utilizing a sort of grid (hopefully just using each pixel as a unit) to create 2dimensional CA.
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CA can start off very erratically and suddenly fall into a pattern that doesnt change for a thousand generations, or vice versa. I will be seeking the "Edge of Chaos", a term coined by computer scientist Christopher Langton in 1990. It refers to a range of variables for any particular CA; as the CA go through phase transitions in this range, the most interesting results occur. To quote wikipedia: "In the sciences in general, the phrase has come to refer to a metaphor that some physical, biological, economic and social systems operate in a region between order and complete randomness or chaos, where the complexity is maximal." This range could also be called the onset of chaos.
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Jonathan McCabe again.
My goal would be the output of high resolution prints. I have a feeling that I am going to need a lot of processing time to complete these prints, and by that I don't mean Processing time (athough that will certainly be involved) I am referring more to the rendering, image processing that my CA will have to go through for, who knows, maybe days, before a really nice pattern starts to emerge.
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This image was created by Jonathan McCabe.
I am very interested in pursuing (obviously, design class) the artistic side, and, after doing a little research, have no doubts that it is possible to create very attractive images with these systems.
The key in this project would be to find a really nice set of conditions for the state changes of my CA. I think I would simply like the states to be a range of colors (for now) and utilizing a sort of grid (hopefully just using each pixel as a unit) to create 2dimensional CA.
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CA can start off very erratically and suddenly fall into a pattern that doesnt change for a thousand generations, or vice versa. I will be seeking the "Edge of Chaos", a term coined by computer scientist Christopher Langton in 1990. It refers to a range of variables for any particular CA; as the CA go through phase transitions in this range, the most interesting results occur. To quote wikipedia: "In the sciences in general, the phrase has come to refer to a metaphor that some physical, biological, economic and social systems operate in a region between order and complete randomness or chaos, where the complexity is maximal." This range could also be called the onset of chaos.
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Jonathan McCabe again.
My goal would be the output of high resolution prints. I have a feeling that I am going to need a lot of processing time to complete these prints, and by that I don't mean Processing time (athough that will certainly be involved) I am referring more to the rendering, image processing that my CA will have to go through for, who knows, maybe days, before a really nice pattern starts to emerge.
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