Thanks, Barry,
Yours was the only suggestion, so I really appreciate it. Before I wrote the list, I did go to that website and poke around, but did not find what I was looking for. It puzzles me because it seems an easy program to make and I would expect that professors would the writing it for their students everywhere. I will follow your suggestions closely. I bought the book on line. It came in a day. I can assure you that the pages are NOT blank. It is as full of wonder as I remember it. I truly believe that you wizards hold the key to the universe if you could but put it in Citizen Talk. Nick Nick Thompson <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> thompnicks...@gmail.com <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Barry MacKichan Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:35 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Thread Bust: WAS: stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development You might want to try <https://www.wolfram.com/language/> https://www.wolfram.com/language/. This could work since the “programming” needed is minima (given that you have the interpretating program). See also <https://www.wolfram.com/language/11/new-visualization-domains/plot-cellular-automata.html> https://www.wolfram.com/language/11/new-visualization-domains/plot-cellular-automata.html. There seem to be free versions of some of the programs and, if not, there are usually student prices. A totally off-thread anecdote. At some academic conference where both Wolfram and we were exhibiting, the Wolfram exhibit featured his new (then) book, ‘A New Kind of Science’, very hefty at something like 1000 pages, and attractive graphics on the cover. I went up to their booth to thumb through the book. Every page was blank. I hear it eventually got fleshed out. —Barry On 25 Oct 2021, at 1:37, thompnicks...@gmail.com <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: Hey, Ed, Perhaps you are the person to answer this question: I have snared both of my grandchildren in CA #30, the -son because he is interested in pattern formation in regenerating planaria and the -daughter because she likes really neat stuff. I would like to give them simple programs so they could generate any one of the 256 rules and see the consequences of them. I thought I would find several readily at hand, but what I did was a serious of sites which schooled me to write such a program myself. I am too old for that. Do you know of any I could email to my -children? It is the first time in years that I have actually caught their fancy with something, so it would really make me happy. Thanks, Nick Nick Thompson <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> thompnicks...@gmail.com <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com> > On Behalf Of Angel Edward Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 5:36 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com <mailto:friam@redfish.com> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development In an affine space (vector space + point), an ant’s position is a point and a path or trail can be described by vectors. __________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) edward.an...@gmail.com <mailto:edward.an...@gmail.com> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel On Oct 24, 2021, at 5:27 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com <mailto:wimber...@gmail.com> > wrote: Focusing the application of ant foraging, what is the scalar product of an ant? What is the sum of two ants. Same questions for pheromone trails. If the answer is that scalar product and sum are not general enough. What are the homomorphisms of ants and pheromone trails? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 5:12 PM Jon Zingale <jonzing...@gmail.com <mailto:jonzing...@gmail.com> > wrote: I want to clarify what a dual space is. I think it is much more general than Frank thinks it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjoint_functors .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . 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