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Week 2 Wednesday

Liam Tsang

Risograph stop motion animation

Eric Rannestad

Notes from Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams

• Decentralization and self organizing agents are under appreciated in education
• More about systems thinking and decentralized phenomena than explicitly about CAs
• Abstracts away from the CA grid through "patch" and "character" objects.
• gives agency to the environment or "patches". They are as much agents in the system as the "characters". Complexity arises from interaction between the environment and the agents it contains.
• carbon pricing and other economic policy around climate, organizing strategies.

Color Code

ColorCode "E" Test

Quick P5.js Sketches

Testing out some grids of multiple CAs from the same ruleset. I tried to add a CA to tiles in a leaflet tile map.

Helen Shewolfe Tseng

Color Code: H letter generator (spawn with purple “2” color)

Nay

==“These elements interlock with each other through dislocation, and it is only at the end that the pattern achieves a stability which both confirms and belies the dynamic process to which it has been carried out.”== 

– Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques 

(though I found the quote in Difference & Repetition by Deleuze)

Kristina Austi

Colorcode, building city.

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Yixin Chen

Color Mixer (with ColorCode)

An attempt to make a not so binary looking 2D cellular automaton where different colors will get mixed together to form new colors.

Dashiel Carrera

A Couple Ideas:

1. Spent some time looking into turning the Zoom grid into a cellular automata. It can be done! But based on my research you’d have to build a new web app that builds on the Zoom web app, so would want a couple more ideas  before I did that.
2. Also have some hexagon cards i thought about messing around with

Unity

Here’s a unity implementation of Conway’s Game of Life

Remi

(letter “R”)

Wiley Wiggins

Link

I had a hard time understanding that rules were not activated if there was not a center tile. 

I also spent some time learning about the automapping rules of the open-source tile painting program Tiled. -> https://doc.mapeditor.org/en/stable/manual/automapping/ 

Tiled works with layers in a project, rather than frames in an animation, but I have a project in progress that plays Tiled layes as animation frames. I had some success but it wasn’t as nice and immediate as colorcode, so one of my goals is to make a tool like colorcode that lets me experiment with CA rules and play them immediately, using my patterned tile images rather than color blocks. Here’s the tool I am going to try to adapt to be more like colorcode- https://github.com/wysiwyggins/grotto-paint

Leyla

Failed miserably to do color coding so I switched to 2D Cellular automata

Check this article about grids!  This ine was so helpful  https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/implementation.html 

I used some hexagon grids and made stars inside a cell. Found this cool oscillator in it! On my way to make a constellations CA 

ECA with letters!

Sophie

Link to five-second stop motion animation video (trying to implement the rules I made up)

Heather

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