Cell

Cell - a fratricide free product



iconWhat is Cell

Cell is a cellular automaton application. You can stare at it for long times and interpret whats going on. If anybody finds a problem fit to be solved by this, tell me.

iconHow to install

The Installation procedure is fairly simple: Unzip the zip. Two files should pop out: The Cell program file and this html readme. Just click the Cell icon to start. Tell me if the icon doesnt appear.

iconHow to use

icon Cell should show a black screen in the beginning. Try clicking in the window... there you are. Clicking stimulates the automaton at the clicked point.

iconHow it works

There's at least two nice models to describe how it works:

The Sandpile model

Each cell (pixel on the bitmap) is a pile of sand corns. Stimulation adds sand to the pile. As soon as the pile is half full with sand, it collapses and equally spreads it's accumulated sand to the four neighbours.

The Brain model

Each cell represents a neuron of the brain. By stimulating, electical load is put into the neuron. Superceding a certain treshold makes the neuron fire and evenly distribute it's load into the four directions. So actually the neuron has only four axions with fixed recipients. I like this model most, because it implies that indeed the brain is solving very complicated problems.

iconConclusion

Have fun looking at it. There might be various areas for cellular automatons to be used, especially in combination with evolutionary algorithms. Can anybody tell me about cool stuff that has been done with cas?

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