The mysteries of Cellular Automata
I recently bought Stephen Wolfram 's book " New Kind of Science ". The book is interesting and I highly recommend it. In the spirit of one of my favorite phrases by Confucius: "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand" I decided to reproduce some of the first examples that are given in the book. I wrote about 100 lines of Python code and enjoyed the beauty of the results. The whole book is available online and I am referring here to the plots on page 55 . Below enclosed a few of my plots. Rule 25: Rule 22: Rule 30: Rule 60: Rule 73: It is still a mystery for me the richness of the patterns that are produced from very simple interaction rules. I would call it Social Networking by pixels .