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

Mon Oct 25 15:34:08 EDT 2021

Nick,

I put the standard Netlogo CA model set to rule 30 online here
https://redfish.com/models/CARule30.html

Hit setup or setup-random then go.  You can play with the rule set on the
left. Note as a binary bits, the CA number ranges from 0-255 depending on
which bits are switched on. Play with the show rules button too.

[image: image.png]

There are hundreds of others on the web, but the Netlogo version is easy
for Miles to download and modify. And, he can get into agent-based modeling
of so many other phenomena. We showed him a bit during his internship.
There's also slime mold aggregation example in netlogo of which I
previously posted Owen's agentscript.org version:

https://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#https://www.netlogoweb.org/assets/modelslib/Sample%20Models/Biology/Slime.nlogo

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On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 10:44 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Barry,
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> Yours was the only suggestion, so I really appreciate it.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I truly believe that you wizards hold the key to the universe if you could
> but put it in Citizen Talk.
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> Nick
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> Nick Thompson
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Barry MacKichan
> *Sent:* Monday, October 25, 2021 9:35 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Thread Bust: WAS: stygmergy, CA's, and
> [biological] development
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> 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
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> On 25 Oct 2021, at 1:37, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
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> 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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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> 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 <
> friam at 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.
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> __________
>
> Ed Angel
>
> Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS
> Lab)
> Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
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> 1017 Sierra Pinon
> Santa Fe, NM 87501
> 505-984-0136 (home)                                edward.angel at gmail.com
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> On Oct 24, 2021, at 5:27 PM, Frank Wimberly <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?
>
> ---
> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
> Santa Fe, NM 87505
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> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
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> On Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 5:12 PM Jon Zingale <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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