the redolent cellular automata and fractal debris http://www.alansondheim.org/automata3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/frack.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/automata4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/automata6.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/frack.png http://www.alansondheim.org/automata1.jpg these older programs are running in dosbox in linux mint; i wrote them originally in qbasic. some of them are fractal, some are cellular automata, some entangled i was exploring everything from wolfram's take on automata in a new kind of science, to pattern recognition. the programs run great in dosbox, but it stops screen-grabs; the images and video are from an external camera. the frack video and image is oddly redolent of a swastika, which unnerved me, and led to the processed images. the programs are relatively simple and lead to complex results. they operate on an x,y plane, although i also worked with 3d models of the same. i'm fascinated by the traces things leave in the world, the relationship of traces to evanescent and fragile. the estimates of the number of life-forms on the planet have increased almost beyond belief, the largest perhaps at four trillion. better to think of dynamic and overriding processes, absorbing and restructuring everything constantly, speciation as the establishing of temporary plateaus with fuzzy boundaries and terrain. all of this is a mystery and fantasy on my part; every- thing i think is farthest from the truth. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
