cellular automata according to Max Planck

[Hubi1857]

we should all care about climate change

the climate is constantly changing

but instead of worrying/stressing over it

we should learn to deal with it

by having appropriate clothing.....

You mix up social climate and local weather. The former happens mostly indoors in air-conditioned rooms when the weather gets rough and the latter needs appropriate clothing when you take a walk outdoors.

[Moosey]

we should all care about climate change

. . .

we should learn to deal with it

by having appropriate clothing.....

With all due respect, I'm pretty sure that telling people to "just adapt to the climate" qualifies as not caring about climate change.

I agree

[pcallahan]

we should all care about climate change

. . .

we should learn to deal with it

by having appropriate clothing.....

With all due respect, I'm pretty sure that telling people to "just adapt to the climate" qualifies as not caring about climate change.

I agree

Well, I still like to call it global warming, not least because I read that "climate change" is an intentional rebranding to make it sound more innocuous. I am not completely sure if that explanation is true, but I will stick with global warming. While the warming is not evenly spread, average temperature is increasing measurably, so it's an accurate term.

Anyway, suffice it to say that neither intelligent design nor climate denialism are popular sentiments here, though I can't speak for everyone.

[KennyFromSouthPark]

Back to topic cellular automata according to Max Planck, please!

[Hubi1857]

{size=200}{size=200}{size=200}{size=200}{size=200}Both isotropic and anisotropic cellular automaton in a local bounded grid can be represented as a compressible finite state automata, with 2^(n^2) states and isomorphic edges between states.{/size}{/size}{/size}{/size}{/size}{/size}

That's what I call sabotage

[testitemqlstudop]

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[Moosey]

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[size=200][size=200][size=200][size=200][size=200]Both isotropic and anisotropic cellular automaton in a local bounded grid can be represented as a compressible finite state automata, with 2^(n^2) states and isomorphic edges between states.[/size][/size][/size][/size][/size]

That's what I call sabotage

Hey at least it had some useful information in it

[Hubi1857]

[Hooloovoo]

The application of CGOL rules does require a grid and a lot more compute power than you will get from a ZX81.

Not quite true: the ZX81 can be programmed to simulate life at plenty of generations per second. Based on my knowledge of z80 assembly, I'd guess that you could easily get 100gps - and when you have a 64x48 graphics mode, that's more than enough.

In high school, I learned to program on a TI graphing calculator, which has roughly similar specs to the ZX81 - a Z80 and a 64x96 screen. I recall making a BASIC program to simulate life, which was way too slow, but my Axe (compiles to assembly) version was much faster.
One of the forums, Omnimaga, ran a code golf challenge for CGOL a while back. There are several Axe and BASIC versions.

[pcallahan]

Not quite true: the ZX81 can be programmed to simulate life at plenty of generations per second. Based on my knowledge of z80 assembly, I'd guess that you could easily get 100gps - and when you have a 64x48 graphics mode, that's more than enough.

Agreed, though my early experience was with a TRS-80, a similarly powered Z-80 machine. I programmed Life in assembly once but did not think about doing sparse life and it was probably more like 10 or 20 gps. I don't recall.

To clarify, I mean that video of a Wolfram rule getting turned into Life at the frontier is a bit beyond what you could create on a ZX81, at least in real time.

[dvgrn]

Agreed, though my early experience was with a TRS-80, a similarly powered Z-80 machine. I programmed Life in assembly once but did not think about doing sparse life and it was probably more like 10 or 20 gps. I don't recall.

Same here -- 64x48 Life on a TRS-80 Model 1 was my one and only assembly-language program, somewhere around 1984, not counting a patch for a PacMan clone called "Scarfman", to allow unlimited lives. The Life implementation was the simplest possible iteration through a byte array, or rather two alternating byte arrays -- no bit-twiddling tricks at all. It just managed to beat one generation per second on the whole field. (No slowdown with population increase, though -- nice and steady.)

I was overjoyed at the time: the BASIC version of the same algorithm took over a minute per generation. This was a chip with a clock speed measured in kilohertz, not megahertz or gigahertz. When I asked the BASIC interpreter to multiply two floating-point numbers, I seem to remember there being a short but measurable pause before the answer appeared.

[otismo]

maybe some of you Max Planck types could make this a real racetrack...

http://gol.fav.uno/examples/racetrackSIX.rle

import in your browser at the site

http://gol.fav.uno

[Moosey]

maybe some of you Max Planck types could make this a real racetrack...

Then you're out of luck; our only "Max Planck type" isn't known for constructing patterns

[otismo]

IDK what to do

factor periodicity

bump it - burp it - what

offer $10 - I really wanna see it

just tired of it already - and it could be

an even BETTER showcase for all the goodies here...

[pcallahan]

maybe some of you Max Planck types could make this a real racetrack...

Then you're out of luck; our only "Max Planck type" isn't known for constructing patterns

And where has our Plonkus Maximus gone? I was starting to think he was getting the hang of how to post here, at least in Sandbox.

[otismo]

one of the three pulsar phases is four ships bound by fire

rule 30 meditation :

https://youtu.be/IK7nBOLYzdE

Creator Elliot Waite GitHub zipfile

rule-30-and-game-of-life-master.zip

contains python scripts

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now if we could have them working in golly...

Well, here is one more instance of yet another rule "feeding" into CGoL :

http://teb.jct.onl/gliderville/gliderville.html

better yet because it is embedded in a webpage

TEB.zip

have your own offline version

(37.77 KiB) Downloaded 150 times

TEB.zip contains some nice tight javascript that essentially does its job

you may wish to add it to your library of goodies - TEB=initials

includes his love letter easter egg - this guy may like

these Forums and may have M.P. skills.....

[mniemiec]

Well, here is one more instance of yet another rule "feeding" into CGoL :
http://teb.jct.onl/gliderville/gliderville.html
better yet because it is embedded in a webpage

This (and previous examples) have fixed regions where the rule used by a cell is determined by where the cell is located. It might be more interesting to use two colors, with distinct birth and survival rules for each color (e.g. CGoL for one, HightLife for the other), which would make it possible for the boundary between the two kinds of life to be fluid (e.g. building crystals by intersecting streams of spaceships from two different rules).

[otismo]

Well, here is one more instance of yet another rule "feeding" into CGoL :
http://teb.jct.onl/gliderville/gliderville.html
better yet because it is embedded in a webpage

This (and previous examples) have fixed regions where the rule used by a cell is determined by where the cell is located. It might be more interesting to use two colors, with distinct birth and survival rules for each color (e.g. CGoL for one, HightLife for the other), which would make it possible for the boundary between the two kinds of life to be fluid (e.g. building crystals by intersecting streams of spaceships from two different rules).

GREAT IDEA !

now all we have to do is write the software -

and since it was your idea...

I want to re-visit the humble tumbler

a p14 "oscillator" that everybody takes for granted

perhaps Max Planck may have looked at it differently and may have seen

the smallest possible universal constructor/replicator, which makes an exact copy of itself every 7 ticks

( it is reversed - but we are expecting too much - exactly HOW is the information encoded in the pattern - we shall have the answer... )

[bubblegum]

sorry to burst your bubble, but Max Planck left this world at around the same time John von Neumann's CA entered it
it's a nice concept, though

[otismo]

sorry to burst your bubble, but Max Planck left this world at around the same time John von Neumann's CA entered it
it's a nice concept, though

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, ForMemRS was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. The Canadian Patriot publication describes Max Planck as a "classical pianist and revolutionary physicist". Wikipedia

Born: April 23, 1858, Kiel, Germany
Died: October 4, 1947, Göttingen, Germany
Known for: Planck constant, Planck postulate, Planck's law, MORE
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Max Planck Medal, Copley Medal, MORE

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I believe Humanity is on the verge of learning something Very Important

from "Cellular Automata" and I want to make as many people aware as possible

before "The Universe" itself tears us to shreds - we are becoming so very complex -

and so greater are the forces of instability and chaos...

[pcallahan]

sorry to burst your bubble, but Max Planck left this world at around the same time John von Neumann's CA entered it
it's a nice concept, though

I think the high concept here was CA as they would have been treated by Max Planck, kind of like what if Hannibal had airships to transport his elephants (a very interesting question IMHO). Unfortunately, it got a bit sidetracked, and the originator appears to be missing in action unless he's using another name.

[bubblegum]

sorry to burst your bubble, but Max Planck left this world at around the same time John von Neumann's CA entered it
it's a nice concept, though

I think the high concept here was CA as they would have been treated by Max Planck, kind of like what if Hannibal had airships to transport his elephants (a very interesting question IMHO). Unfortunately, it got a bit sidetracked, and the originator appears to be missing in action unless he's using another name.

I know, and I fully support the topic discussion, unfortunately Hubi is MIA and without another name this time. Hopefully he'll come back.

Also, let's discuss Max Planck visiting failed replicators. Did he see potential in them or did he just pass them off as another disappointing false positive? (and please, no more wikipedia articles)

[Moosey]

I know, and I fully support the topic discussion, unfortunately Hubi is MIA and without another name this time. Hopefully he'll come back.

Hopefully, he'll come back with a better understanding of the evolution of the glider. And less hatred towards me.

Personally, I don't expect that to happen from someone who got frustrated with dvgrn when dvgrn removed profanity from the thread, considering that profanity is against the rules. Remember, Hubi called us all ignorant, and attacked anyone whose opinions involved (quite rightly, in my own) a distaste for what Hubi did.



Also, whether the topic was actually important is debatable; as rhombic once put it, it's a bunch of "pseudoscientific ramble". Though of course perhaps this was less to do with the nature of the topic as much as the nature of the author.

[otismo]

BACK ON TOPIC

"discrete energy quanta"

what would that be in CA ?

in CGoL ?

[Moosey]

BACK ON TOPIC

"discrete energy quanta"

what would that be in CA ?

in CGoL ?

Gs obviously