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Posted by: Guy Birkin
It seems that there hasn't been much action recently on this Artistic NKS bit of the forum. I know that some of us creative types aren't keen on writing, but surely we could at least get a bit of a visual dialogue going?
I said ages ago that I'd post some pictures of my artwork. So, in an attempt to get the ball rolling, here's a few pictures.
This first one is a k3 block CA (wrapped left to right) drawn with Bic biro on graph paper. Before I got a computer, this is how I calculated my CAs. I'm sure that doing all the computation myself helped deepen an understanding of the processes at work. Yes - it's basic, but I like the small local imperfections amongst the global ordeliness that comes about using this method.
Posted by: Guy Birkin
Block CA #39, wrapped into a square tube, with only black cells showing. Acrylic paint on canvas. (all done without a computer)
Posted by: Guy Birkin
Block CA #39, wrapped into a square tube, with only black cells shown, in isometric PoV. Again, before I had a computer. Acrylic paint on canvas.
Posted by: Guy Birkin
Same thing, this time with a computer, although I used the same CA pattern that I'd calculated by hand. Built in virtual Lego using MLCAD, rendered with PovRay.
Posted by: Guy Birkin
BCA 39 again , this time done in needlepoint (tapestry). It was quite fiddly to get the two sides joined into a cylinder so there was no visible break in the pattern. It looks a bit rickety and home-made, but that was kind of what I wanted, contrasting with the techno pattern - a marriage of craft and science (hence the bell-jar, which is both scientific equipment and display case).
Posted by: Guy Birkin
Lastly (for now), another virtual Lego piece rendered with PovRay. It shows the evolution of a 2D CA starting from one cell. Of the crystal-like cellular automata on page 373 of NKS, it would be rule 1. I did actually make this piece in real Lego - it took about a day and 8,500 bricks to build.
Now I've got Mathematica, and I'm learning how to implement the programs I've been doing by hand up till now. But one thing I can't yet do is produce images like this one! If anybody can help me create 3D representations of the evolution of 2D CAs in Mathematica, I would be most grateful.
Hope you like the pictures
Guy
Posted by: Martijn
Nice to see some one used Lego.
I have used Lego to explain ca to children.
We also made some images.
Posted by: Martijn
Real Lego
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