[FRIAM] Thread Bust: WAS: stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development

[Barry MacKichan]

You might want to try 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. 
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, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:

> Hey, Ed,
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> 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.
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>
> Thanks,
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>
>
> Nick
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> Nick Thompson
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>  <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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>  <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> 
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Angel Edward
> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 5:36 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group 
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> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] stygmergy, CA's, and [biological] development
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> In an affine space (vector space + point), an ant’s position is a 
> point and a path or trail can be described by vectors.
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> Ed Angel
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> On Oct 24, 2021, at 5:27 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com> > wrote:
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> 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?
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> On Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 5:12 PM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jonzingale at gmail.com> > wrote:
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> 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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