Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular AutomataAndrew Adamatzky, Genaro J. Martínez This fascinating, colourful book offers in-depth insights and first-hand working experiences in the production of art works, using simple computational models with rich morphological behaviour, at the edge of mathematics, computer science, physics and biology. It organically combines ground breaking scientific discoveries in the theory of computation and complex systems with artistic representations of the research results. In this appealing book mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, and engineers brought together marvelous and esoteric patterns generated by cellular automata, which are arrays of simple machines with complex behavior. Configurations produced by cellular automata uncover mechanics of dynamic patterns formation, their propagation and interaction in natural systems: heart pacemaker, bacterial membrane proteins, chemical rectors, water permeation in soil, compressed gas, cell division, population dynamics, reaction-diffusion media and self-organisation. The book inspires artists to take on cellular automata as a tool of creativity and it persuades scientists to convert their research results into the works of art. The book is lavishly illustrated with visually attractive examples, presented in a lively and easily accessible manner. |
Contents
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Is it Art or Science? | 13 |
Larger than Life | 27 |
Three Favorite Cellular Automata | 35 |
Dying to Live AgainArchitecture Art Design | 39 |
In Search of Movement and Life on a Static Grid | 53 |
Some Beautiful and Difficult Questions aboutCellular Automata | 59 |
Hyperbolic Gallery | 64 |
Two Layer Asynchronous Cellular Automata | 120 |
Cellular Automata Simulation of Bacterial CellGrowth and Division | 122 |
Seismic Cellular Automata | 125 |
DNA Cellular Automata | 127 |
Reversibility Simulation and DynamicalBehaviour | 129 |
Aesthetics and Randomness in CellularAutomata | 137 |
Cellular Automata with Memory | 140 |
Turing Machines and Checkerboards | 149 |
Evolved Gliders andWaves on a Geodesic Grid | 73 |
Constructing Counters through Evolution | 75 |
Biological LatticeGas Cellular Automata | 78 |
The Enlightened Game of Life | 83 |
Small Synchronizers and Prime Generators | 87 |
Ecological Patterns of SelfReplicators | 96 |
The Art of Penrose Life | 103 |
Asynchronous Cellular Automata SimulatingComplex Phenomena | 110 |
A Multiparticle LatticeGas Cellular AutomatonSimulating a Piston Motion | 118 |
Aperiodicity and Reversibilty | 155 |
Painting with Cellular Automata | 159 |
Patterns in Cellular Automata | 161 |
Gliders in OneDimensional Cellular Automata | 167 |
Excitable Automata | 173 |
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Other editions - View all
Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata Andrew Adamatzky,Genaro J. Martínez No preview available - 2018 |
Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata Andrew Adamatzky,Genaro J. Martínez No preview available - 2016 |